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<p>About 10 years ago I needed to get the Koeppen Climate
Classification for thousands of international locations in order
to run a solar model (Zhang-Huang 2003) where we've grouped
locations by Koeppen CC.</p>
<p>In order to do that, I found a digital map of the entire world at
a half-degree grid with the Koeppen CC for each grid, and then
wrote a script to read the map file and then return the Koeppen CC
for any location based on its lat/lon. It worked well enough for
my needs that after I've added the Koeppen CC to the station
information, e.g., lat, lon, elev, time-zone, etc., I haven't had
a need to return to the map since.</p>
<p>Some words of caution about the Koeppen CC. Since they're based
on a number of climate statistics, the Koeppen CC will change for
some locations near the boundaries (just like ASHRAE Climate
Zones!:-)). I'm not in favor of such shifting climate zones and
decided to use what somebody has compiled than embark on my own
calculations.</p>
<p>I can share more information about what I did if there's
interest.</p>
<p>Joe<br>
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