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<p>This is very interesting information for several reasons: <br>
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<p>(1) the snow and rain flags are not part of the raw data stream
from the weather stations, so I've assumed they have to be
extracted from the Present Weather reports, <br>
</p>
<p>(2) the wy3 is a derived weather file format developed for
ASHRAE back in the late 1990s so old that Env Canada might be
the only place still using it; I'm not aware that the wy3
contains the snow/rain flags but they must have been put there
by Env. Canada, and I would be very interested to see how these
flags correlate to what I can get from the Present Weather data
in the raw weather files.</p>
<p>In the little bit of time I've spent looking into this issue
over the past week, I was unsure which of the PW codes should be
used for the Snow/Rain flags. Take a look at the attached table
of Present Weather Observation Codes currently used in weather
station reports, i.e., METAR. Should we use all the 7's as
ISNOW, although 74 - 76 refers to "Ice Pellets", and what about
85 - 87 referring to "Snow showers or intermittent rain"?
Similarly, we can use all the 6's as IRAIN, but what about 24
(Rain), 25 (Freezing Drizzle), etc.? That's why I'm very
interested to see what Env. Canada did.</p>
<p>(I'm also adding BLDG-SIM back to this post because the same
issue has been in discussions there, too.</p>
<p>Joe<br>
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<pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>The Environment Canada website has
the latest version of the CWEC files - .epw and raw, .wy3
format. The .epw file does not include the snow rain flags
but the raw data .wy3 file does. I converted the .wy3 file
to .bin using the DOE2 weather processor and voila, the
snow and rain flags are included in the .bin file. Now, I
only converted 1 file as a test but it is encouraging. </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span> Joe
Huang [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com"
moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>]
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<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, January 09, 2018 4:50 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> Brian Fountain <a
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moz-do-not-send="true"><bfountain@greensim.com></a>;
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<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Bldg-sim] [EnergyPlus_Support]
RE: [Equest-users] White Box Technologies brings
simulation weather data to the satellite age</span></p>
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<p>Hmm, the Canadian contingent on the bulletin boards are
voicing their needs in weather data :-) This reminds me
of the one trip I took to Calgary in December 20+ years ago
and seeing the parking lots had electrical outlets at each
spot so that car engines would not freeze up. I was duly
impressed.</p>
<p>Back to the snow flag on weather files, isn't the condition
of most relevance whether there's snow cover, rather than
whether it's snowing? Unfortunately, the weather station
raw data do not report this, which could vary quite a bit
depending on the ground surface anyway. There ARE fields
for solid precipitation similar to those for liquid
precipitation. I've never looked carefully at these, but
they might give the amount of snow fall over the past so
many hours, which would be an improvement over the Present
Weather that just tells whether or not there is snowfall
that hour. One might be able to calculate snow cover based
on the amount of snow fall, solar radiation, and
temperature. It's quite likely that some meteorologist or
physicist with time on his/her hands might have already
done that in Canada. If you know of any such work, let me
know. </p>
<p>Just based on what I've read so far, I'm going to start
putting in the IRAIN and ISNOW flags into the DOE-2 *.binm
files.</p>
<p>Joe</p>
<pre>Joe Huang</pre>
<pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.</pre>
<pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A</pre>
<pre>Moraga CA 94556</pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/8/2018 4:35 PM, Brian Fountain
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<p class="MsoNormal">As Chris suggested, they aren't used
directly in the sim ... but we use them to create custom
schedules for snow melting loads.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 08/01/2018 6:44 PM, Joe Huang via
Bldg-sim wrote:</p>
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<p>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.</p>
<p>Joe</p>
<pre>Joe Huang</pre>
<pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.</pre>
<pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A</pre>
<pre>Moraga CA 94556</pre>
<pre><a href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" moz-do-not-send="true">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a></pre>
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<pre>(o) (925)388-0265</pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/8/2018 12:15 PM, 'Jones,
Christopher' <a
href="mailto:christopher.r.jones@wsp.com"
moz-do-not-send="true"> christopher.r.jones@wsp.com</a>
[EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>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. </span>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-GB">Christopher
R. Jones</span></b><span lang="EN-GB">,
P.Eng.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Technical
Specialist</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">Sustainability
& Energy</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>2300 Yonge Street,
Suite 2300</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Toronto, ON M4P 1E4
Canada</span><span lang="EN-GB"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span>From:</span></b><span>
Equest-users [<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:equest-users-bounces@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
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moz-do-not-send="true">
<Nicholas.Caton@schneider-electric.com></a>; BLDG-SIM <a
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<bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org></a>;
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moz-do-not-send="true"><jim@buildingperformanceteam.com></a><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [Equest-users] White
Box Technologies brings simulation
weather data to the satellite age</span></p>
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<p>Nick,</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>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. </p>
<p>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? </p>
<p>Joe</p>
<pre>Joe Huang</pre>
<pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.</pre>
<pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A</pre>
<pre>Moraga CA 94556</pre>
<pre><a href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com" moz-do-not-send="true">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a></pre>
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<pre>(o) (925)388-0265</pre>
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<pre>"building energy simulations at your fingertips"</pre>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On 1/2/2018 9:30 AM,
Nicholas Caton wrote:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Hi Joe,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>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 “present-day” solar models used to
derive solar radiation information for
building energy simulation?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>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: </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>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 <u>not</u> 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)?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Does
satellite-derived solar radiation address
some or all of these local climate issues
(cloud cover, smog, dust) affecting
direct/indirect solar radiation? </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>Thanks sincerely
for all your teaching Joe,</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>~Nick</span></p>
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Equest-users [<a
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moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:equest-users-bounces@lists.onebuilding.org</a>]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Joe Huang via
Equest-users<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, December 14,
2017 8:13 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> BLDG-SIM <a
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moz-do-not-send="true"><bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org></a>;
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<b>Subject:</b> [Equest-users] White
Box Technologies brings simulation
weather data to the satellite age</span></p>
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<p>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>
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>
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>
from which were derived 28 sets of
regression coefficients then used for all
3,012 IWEC2 locations.<br>
<br>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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>
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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.</p>
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<pre>Joe Huang</pre>
<pre>White Box Technologies, Inc.</pre>
<pre>346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A</pre>
<pre>Moraga CA 94556</pre>
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<pre>(c) (510)928-2683</pre>
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