<div dir="ltr">Joe,<div><br></div><div>Awesome work with the solar data!  DOE2 uses IRAIN to set the outside surface temperature of roofs to the ambient wetbulb when rain is present.  E+ increases the outside heat transfer coefficient to 1000 when rain is present, but I can't quite tell if it is reading in a rain flag or if this is always false.  Probably only a small impact on energy consumption.</div><div><br></div><div>Aaron</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jan 9, 2018 at 2:11 PM, Joe Huang via Bldg-sim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
  
    
  
  <div text="#000000" bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
    <p>The 9-digit Present Weather Code (PW) was used only in North
      America before the turn of the century an long since replaced by a
      METAR 2-digit PW code now used in  weather reports around the
      world.  So, if the epw  format leaves space for this old coding,
      it's functionally dead space and probably filled with 999999999 in
      all files except the old TMY2s and CWECs. The Liquid Precipitation
      (LP) is very different because it gives the amount of
      precipitation and time over which it occurred, typically in
      multiples of 6 up to 24 hours, not whether or not there is rain
      during that hour.   This makes LP reports basically unusable in
      simulations, which is why I spent several weeks back in 2015 to
      convert the LP in the TMY3s to hourly records.  So, if EnergyPlus
      is relying on the LP field to detect the presence of rain, make
      sure that the LP has undergone such a data transformation.  And
      what about snow flag, which seems to be of greater interest ?<br>
    </p>
    <p>In my opinion, if the rain and snow flags are useful, we should
      take them from the current 2-digit METAR PWC.  I've already doing
      that  starting with the IWEC2 weather files, where I added an
      extra field for PW  to the end of the TMY3 format,  although I
      never made a big fuss about the format change.  PW appears on all
      the weather files  that I produce in the *.FIN4 format, but it's
      lost in the conversion to epw nor have I bothered to  use them to
      set the ISNOW and IRAIN  flags in the DOE-2 bin files.  To do so
      is very easy, since in the METAR PWC all  instances of rain have
      the same initial digit, as do all instances of snow.  <br>
    </p><span class="">
    <p>Joe<br>
    </p>
    <pre class="m_-3789007891426985565moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
<a class="m_-3789007891426985565moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.<wbr>com</a>
<a class="m_-3789007891426985565moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">http://weather.<wbr>whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather data
(o) <a href="tel:(925)%20388-0265" value="+19253880265" target="_blank">(925)388-0265</a>
(c) <a href="tel:(510)%20928-2683" value="+15109282683" target="_blank">(510)928-2683</a>
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
</pre>
    </span><span class=""><div class="m_-3789007891426985565moz-cite-prefix">On 1/9/2018 4:32 AM, Linda Lawrie
      wrote:<br>
    </div>
    </span><blockquote type="cite"><span class="">
      <font size="3">Actually, EnergyPlus (and the epw format) uses
        coded flags
        in the 9 digit "Present Weather Codes"  to determine and
        set Rain/Snow.  Now that some stations include precipitation
        (albeit
        liquid) EnergyPlus sets the rain flag when there is adequate
        precipitation currently.<br>
        <br>
        I believe the updated TMY3 format went away from the 9 digit
        present
        weather codes, so EnergyPlus would rely on the "preciitation"
        field in the epw file.<br>
        <br>
        It would not be impossible to bring those back to the CWEC data;
        however,
        probably not as individual flags.<br>
        <br>
        Linda<br>
        <br>
        At 04:44 PM 1/8/2018, Joe Huang via Bldg-sim wrote:<br>
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          The rain and snow flags are still available in the raw weather
          station
          data, but haven't been included in the processed weather files
          since the
          1990's because  everyone in this hemisphere at least have
          adopted
          the TMY2/TMY3 formats, in content  if not the literal file
          format,
          developed by NREL, which does not include these two flags. I
          was also
          under the impression that none of the simulation programs,
          such as DOE-2,
          do not use these two flags anyway.   If these flags are of
          use, it
          would make sense to include them, which would not require a
          change in the
          DOE-2 *.BINM format, but would require a change to the
          EnergyPlus *.epw
          format.<br>
          <br>
          Joe<br>
          <br>
        </font><span class="">
        <pre>Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
<a href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">
yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.<wbr>com</a>
<a href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/" target="_blank">
http://weather.<wbr>whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather
data
(o) <a href="tel:(925)%20388-0265" value="+19253880265" target="_blank">(925)388-0265</a>
(c) <a href="tel:(510)%20928-2683" value="+15109282683" target="_blank">(510)928-2683</a>
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
</pre>
        On 1/8/2018 12:15
        PM, 'Jones, Christopher'
        <a href="mailto:christopher.r.jones@wsp.com" target="_blank">
          christopher.r.jones@wsp.com</a> [EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:<br>
        </span><blockquote type="cite" class="m_-3789007891426985565cite">  <br><span class="">
          <br>
          I have a question – what happened to the rain and snow flags
          that were in
          the old CWEC file but are missing in the latest versions. Many
          snow
          melting systems have a snow/rain sensor in the slab used to
          trigger the
          system on. <br>
          <br></span>
          Â <br>
          <br>
          <b> <br>
          </b><span class=""><br>
          <b>Christopher R. Jones</b>, P.Eng.<br>
          <br>
          Technical Specialist<br>
          <br>
          Sustainability & Energy<br>
          <br></span><span class="">
          Â <br>
          <br>
          <img src="cid:part4.9999583B.64ACAB20@whiteboxtechnologies.com" alt="[]" height="37" width="78">
          <br>
          <br>
          T <a href="tel:(416)%20644-0252" value="+14166440252" target="_blank">+1 416-644-0252</a><br>
          <br>
          Â <br>
          <br></span><span class="">
          2300 Yonge Street, Suite 2300<br>
          <br>
          Toronto, ON M4P 1E4 Canada<br>
          <br>
          <a href="http://wsp.htm" target="_blank">wsp.com</a><br>
          <br>
          </span><u> <br>
          </u><br>
          <b> <br>
          </b><span class=""><br>
          <i>Please consider the environment before printing...<br>
          </i><br></span>
          Â <br>
          <br>
          Â <br><span class="">
          <br>
          <b>From:</b> Equest-users
          [<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
            mailto:equest-users-bounces@<wbr>lists.onebuilding.org</a>] <b>On
            Behalf Of
          </b>Joe Huang via Equest-users<br>
          <b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 02, 2018 10:15 PM<br>
          <b>To:</b> Nicholas Caton
          <a href="mailto:Nicholas.Caton@schneider-electric.com" target="_blank">
            <Nicholas.Caton@schneider-<wbr>electric.com></a>; BLDG-SIM
          <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
            <bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.<wbr>org></a>;
          EnergyPlus_Support
          <a href="mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">
            <EnergyPlus_Support@<wbr>yahoogroups.com></a>;
          <a href="mailto:equest-users@onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
            equest-users@onebuilding.org</a><br>
          <b>Cc:</b> Jim Dirkes
          <a href="mailto:jim@buildingperformanceteam.com" target="_blank">
            <jim@buildingperformanceteam.<wbr>com></a><br>
          <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] White Box Technologies
          brings
          simulation weather data to the satellite age<br>
          <br></span>
          Â <br>
          <br>
          Nick,<br>
          <br><span class="">
          This is an interesting topic that has evolved in an unexpected
          way.  Now that NREL has mastered the technology of
          satellite-derived solar radiation, they have regarded weather
          station
          data as an impediment, since there's no way to get such
          measured data to
          match the 5-kilometer grid of the satellite-derived solar. 
          Therefore, they have abandoned the weather station data (which
          was was
          used in all the TMYs to date) and gone instead to Reanalysis
          Data from
          NOAA's MERRA, which is running a climate forecasting model in
          retrospective mode. I don't have time now to discuss
          reanalysis, except
          to say that from what I've seen the results are decidedly
          "iffy".  Almost two years ago, I managed to get a Work
          Statement through ASHRAE  for someone to take a good look at
          reanalysis data.<br>
          <br>
          So, what does this mean for your question?   NREL's National
          Solar
          Radiation Data Base (NSRDB) can now get you the hourly time
          series or a
          TMY for more than a million grid points over the US, all with
          satellite-derived solar radiation but  MERRA results for the
          other
          climate parameters.  I've told NREL several years ago that
          for the
          building simulation industry it would be much better to merge
          the 
          satellite-derived solar with actual station data that give
          good accurate
          coverage of urban areas where buildings are located. NREL's
          response was
          that they'd be happy to do this, but someone has to pay them
          for the
          work. <br>
          <br></span>
          In response to your hypothesis below, I think you're being too
          disparaging of the previous modeling efforts while raising too
          high your
          expectations of satellite solar.  It's not that the previous
          models
          failed to account for local climate conditions, but that they
          lacked good
          data to drive them.  For example, all models included terms
          for
          cloud cover and clearness, or for the more detailed physical
          models
          arcane parameters like aerosol optical depth, preciptable
          moisture,
          etc.,  but how available are the input data and how reliable
          are
          they?  The advantages of satellite-derived solar are that
          they
          provide a comprehensive and objective view of the cloud
          conditions, which
          combined with satellite measurements of the atmospheric
          conditions
          and  improved modeling, results in  accuracies that previous
          modeling efforts can not attain.  As far as discerning
          localized
          effects of smog and dust in urban areas, that would still
          depend on
          whether there's sufficient monitoring at that spatial and time
          scale to
          detect the differences.   What I mean is that it's one thing
          to
          observe that in general urban locations have more smog and
          particulates
          than rural locations, but it's something else to quantify the
          resultant
          differences in solar radiation over time and distance.<br>
          <br>
          I'd like to take the opportunity here to step back and comment
          on the
          status of weather data for the building energy community, My
          interactions
          with NREL has brought the realization that we have been
          piggy-backing on
          the efforts of others outside our community for our weather
          data. 
          I don't intend to pick on the NREL Solar Program, several of
          whom I
          consider friends and colleagues, but their target client is
          the solar
          power industry.  Since solar power arrays can be installed
          anywhere, preferably in rural uninhabited locations, it makes
          sense to go
          to satellite-derived solar.  It's also clear that to serve
          that
          industry, NREL would focus its efforts on getting the best
          solar values,
          while all the other climatic parameters, like temperature,
          humidity, wind
          speed, etc., are secondary, which may be why getting them from
          MERRA is a
          satisfactory choice.  The focus on solar is also evident in
          the
          weighting used by NREL to develop the TMYs, with 50% weight
          placed on the
          2 solar and 50% on the remaining 8 non-solar parameters. <br>
          <br>
          For the building energy community, or priorities are somewhat
          different.
          Since 99% of buildings are located in urban locations, we
          should focus
          much more on climate in urban areas.  Luckily, that's also
          where
          the great majority of existing weather are located, which is
          why I'm
          resistant to throwing out measured weather data and replacing
          them with
          synthetic data, no matter how much they've been "seeded" with
          real data. As for the weighting of climate parameters in
          selecting the
          typical months,  why not use building energy simulations and
          weight
          them by the distribution of heating and cooling loads? <br><span class="">
          <br>
          Joe<br>
          <br>
          <pre>Joe Huang</pre>
          <br>
          <pre>White Box Technologies,
Inc.</pre>
          <br>
          <pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite
205A</pre>
          <br>
          <pre>Moraga CA
94556</pre>
          <br>
          <pre><a href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">
yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.<wbr>com</a></pre>
          <br>
          <pre><a href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/" target="_blank">
http://weather.<wbr>whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather
data</pre>
          <br>
          <pre>(o)
<a href="tel:(925)%20388-0265" value="+19253880265" target="_blank">(925)388-0265</a></pre>
          <br>
          <pre>(c)
<a href="tel:(510)%20928-2683" value="+15109282683" target="_blank">(510)928-2683</a></pre>
          <br>
          <pre>"building energy simulations at your
fingertips"</pre>
          <br>
          On 1/2/2018 9:30 AM, Nicholas Caton wrote:<br>
          </span><dl>
            <br>
            <dd>Hi Joe,<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>From your perspective, are NREL or any other
              government/professional
              bodies making moves/indications to update/refresh the
              current TMY3 sets
              to utilize satellite-derived solar radiation?  Seems like
              a
              no-brainer for our industry, but is there a
              counter-argument?  It
              seems likely, but has there been rigorous comparisons of
              satellite-derived solar radiation against measured values
              and/or our
              â€œpresent-day† solar models used to derive solar
              radiation information
              for building energy simulation?<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Also, I’m trying to understand and correctly
              characterize the
              impact of this development in simple terms my brain can
              follow.  Is
              it fair to say: <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>The solar models used in developing weather files for
              building energy
              simulations to-date in our industry (including all/most
              industry-standard
              TMY weather sets), because they have been using solar
              radiation derived
              from (evolving) solar models, have not accounted for the
              likes of
              local climate cloud cover / smog / dust?  Seattle
              (~47°N) has
              perhaps been seeing as much sunlight through the winter as
              Paris
              (~48°N)?<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>Does satellite-derived solar radiation address some or
              all of these
              local climate issues (cloud cover, smog, dust) affecting
              direct/indirect
              solar radiation? <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            </span><dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>Thanks sincerely for all your teaching Joe,<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            </span><dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>~Nick<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>
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              <br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Nick Caton, P.E., BEMP<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            </span><span class=""><dd>  Senior Energy Engineer<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>  Regional Energy Engineering Manager<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>  Energy and Sustainability Services<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>  Schneider Electric<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
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            <dd>15200 Santa Fe Trail Drive<br>
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            <dd>Suite 204<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Lenexa, KS 66219<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>United States<br>
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            <dd> <br>
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            <dd> <br>
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            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>From: Equest-users
              [<a href="mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
                mailto:equest-users-bounces@<wbr>lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
              On Behalf Of
              Joe Huang via Equest-users<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 8:13 PM<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>To: BLDG-SIM
              <a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
                <bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.<wbr>org></a>;
              EnergyPlus_Support
              <a href="mailto:EnergyPlus_Support@yahoogroups.com" target="_blank">
                <EnergyPlus_Support@<wbr>yahoogroups.com></a>;
              <a href="mailto:equest-users@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">
                equest-users@lists.<wbr>onebuilding.org</a><br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Subject: [Equest-users] White Box Technologies brings
              simulation
              weather data to the satellite age<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            </span><dd> <br>
              <br>
            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>It is with joy and some trepidation to report that White
              Box
              Technologies (WBT) is updating all its historical weather
              files with
              satellite-derived solar radiation. Joy because this
              overcomes what has
              been the most significant question mark with weather
              files; trepidation
              because of the amount of work needed to carry out and
              maintain this
              effort. To show that this is more than marketing hype, I
              need to give a
              rather long explanation about this development.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>The bane of weather data over the past three decades has
              been the
              solar radiation (global horizontal and direct normal)
              which are not
              measured parameters, but derived using various solar and
              sky models. All
              the familiar "typical year" sets, i.e., TMY, WYEC, IWEC,
              etc.,
              let alone the historical weather files, have modeled solar
              radiation.
              Although a lot of<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>work has gone into such models (see M. Iqbal,"An
              Introduction to
              Solar Radiation", Academic Press, 1983), there remain an
              almost
              intractible problem of the lack of good measured solar to
              tune any of
              these models. For example, in the ASHRAE IWEC2 weather
              files, my team was
              able to find one or two years' measured data for less than
              50
              locations,<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>from which were derived 28 sets of regression
              coefficients then used
              for all 3,012 IWEC2 locations.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>For the past decade and a half, researchers around the
              world have
              been working to derive solar radiation from weather
              satellite imagery,
              driven largely by the needs of the solar power industry
              for the siting of
              solar power plants and getting "bankable" solar estimates
              for
              their arrays. Our little building energy simulation sector
              can of course
              benefit by hanging on the coattails of the solar power
              industry, but the
              downside has been to be totally priced out, since the
              commercial cost for
              one year's solar data for one location (grid cell)
              typically runs around
              $1,000.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>A welcome development over the last five years is that
              various
              government offices or affiliated consortia are now
              beginning to also
              providing access to satellite-derived solar radiation at
              minimal or more
              acceptable costs under various conditions. Over the past
              three years, WBT
              has obtained access to such data and permission for its
              use in WBT
              weather files.<br>
            </dd>
            <dd>WBT is now either replacing the solar radiation on its
              historical
              weather files, or using satellite-derived radiation to
              develop custom
              solar coefficients for each location to extend the
              satellite-derived
              solar to time periods outside the available time window.
              With the
              exception of polar locations above or below 60/66 degrees,
              island nations
              in the Pacific and Indian Ocean, and a few unfortunate
              "blind
              spots", the entire land mass is being covered with at
              least 10 years
              up to 18 years of hourly solar records.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>Starting in 2018, WBT historical weather files in the
              following areas
              will all have satellite-derived solar radiation for the
              following time
              periods: Europe, Africa, South America east of 66 West,
              i.e., Brazil and
              Uruguay (2004 to date), Australia (1999 to date), and East
              Asia (2007 to
              date, access pending). WBT historical weather files in the
              following
              areas will have satellite-derived solar radiation for the
              indicated time
              periods - North America and Central/South American down to
              20 South
              (1998-2015), South Asia (2000-2014), with modeled solar
              radiation from
              2016 on that has been individually tuned to the past
              satellite-derived
              solar.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            </span><dd>Another benefit to the satellite-derived solar is to
              increases the
              number of available weather stations, which in many places
              has been
              limited by the lack of cloud cover data needed to model
              the solar
              radiation.  For reasons that are not immediately
              identifiable,
              several English-speaking Commonwealth countries has seen a
              marked drop in
              the number of available stations due to the decreases in
              the reporting of
              cloud cover (see plot, ZAF = South Africa). For example,
              the number of
              stations in the UK has dropped by almost 2/3s between 2001
              and 2017 (174
              to 64), but with satellite-derived solar, it will go back
              up to over 180,
              while in Australia and South Africa the comparable numbers
              are from 175
              to well over 500, and from 37 to over 100, respectively.<br>
            </dd><span class="">
            <dd>
              <img src="cid:part21.58EF16E7.D066CFB9@whiteboxtechnologies.com" alt="[]" height="337" width="625">
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>If interested, customers who have purchased a historical
              weather
              files from WBT over the past five years can get an updated
              weather file
              at no cost. Lastly, although it will take at least a month
              to update all
              10,000 2017 files, it's very quick to do for any specific
              location or
              even 50 or so locations. Therefore, if you have an urgent
              request please
              e-mail me and I will put that at the beginning of the
              queue for that
              day.<br>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>-- </pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>Joe
Huang</pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>White Box Technologies,
Inc.</pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite
205A</pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>Moraga CA
94556</pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre><a href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" target="_blank">
yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.<wbr>com</a></pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre><a href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/" target="_blank">
http://weather.<wbr>whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather
data</pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>(o)
<a href="tel:(925)%20388-0265" value="+19253880265" target="_blank">(925)388-0265</a></pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>(c)
<a href="tel:(510)%20928-2683" value="+15109282683" target="_blank">(510)928-2683</a></pre>
              <br>
            </dd>
            <dd>
              <pre>"building energy simulations at your
fingertips"</pre>
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            </dd>
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