[Equest-users] White Box Technologies releases 21st Century "typical year" weather files for 224 Canadian locations

[Joe Huang]

Julien,

Surprising that you asked this question, because I just posted an 
explanation two days ago why I haven't created a similar "typical year" 
weather set for the US,  which I'm attaching immediately following this 
reply.  The bottom line is that while I have the capability to do this 
fairly quickly, I'm not sure whether it would be seen as stepping on 
NREL's turf or regarded as superfluous by the users.

Joe

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Subject: 	Re: [Equest-users] TMY2 for Washington DC?
Date: 	Tue, 24 Nov 2015 21:58:44 -0800
From: 	Joe Huang <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
To: 	equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org



Aaron, others,

It's a business decision on my part not to create "typical year" weather 
files for US locations, since people have free access to the TMY3 
weather files  (Incidentally, the TMY3 files on both my web site as well 
as doe2.com were converted by me from the original *.CSV files released 
by NREL in 2005).  However, I have been creating custom "typical year" 
weather files for US locations upon request of customers for locations 
not in the TMY3 collection, or for different time periods (generally 
more current) than what was used for the TMY3.  For example, over the 
past year I've created "typical year" weather files for Park City Utah, 
three locations in Maui, and for Pittsburgh IAP based on the last eight 
years.

Joe

Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com  for simulation-ready weather data
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"

On 11/26/2015 12:57 AM, Julien Marrec wrote:
> Joe,
>
> Is there any plan (=funding probably) to do the same for the US?
>
> Best,
> Julien
>
> --
> Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA
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>
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>
> 2015-11-25 23:26 GMT+01:00 Daniel Knapp <danielk at arborus.ca 
> <mailto:danielk at arborus.ca>>:
>
>     Thanks Joe! This looks like a fantastic resource.
>
>     All the best,
>
>     Dan
>
>     —
>     Daniel Knapp, PhD, PPhys, LEED® AP O+M
>     danielk at arborus.ca <mailto:danielk at arborus.ca>
>
>     Arborus Consulting
>     Energy Strategies for the Built Environment
>     www.arborus.ca <http://www.arborus.ca>
>     76 Chamberlain Avenue
>     Ottawa, ON, K1S 1V9
>     Phone: (613) 234-7178 ext. 113
>     Fax: (613) 234-0740
>
>
>
>
>     > On Nov 25, 2015, at 3:38 PM, Joe Huang
>     <yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
>     <mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>> wrote:
>     >
>     >
>     > ANNOUNCEMENT
>     > 21ST Century “typical year” weather files for 224 Canadian
>     locations now available
>     >
>     > White Box Technologies is pleased to announce the release of a
>     new set of  21st Century “typical year” weather files for 224
>     Canadian locations. These CN2014 weather files were produced using
>     the same raw data source, i.e., NCEI’s (formerly NCDC) Integrated
>     Surface Hourly Database (ISD), and software that were used in
>     creating the IWEC2 weather files. The 224 locations represents all
>     the Canadian stations in the ISD with at least eight years of
>     data  in the 15-year period 2000-2014 of sufficient data quality
>     to create hourly weather files.  Since the CWEC weather files 
>     were based on the period 1960-1989, the CN2014 weather files
>     should provide an interesting contrast and answer whether there’s
>     been significant changes in Canada’s climate over the past 25 years.
>     >
>     > The CN2014 weather files are available either as an entire set
>     of 224, in *.BINM or *.epw format, or in both plus a *.FIN4 text
>     format,  or as Individual files that comes in all three formats. 
>     For details, please go to
>     http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/CN2014
>     >
>     >
>     > Map of locations
>     > <Mail Attachment.jpeg>
>     >
>     > List of locations
>     > <Mail Attachment.png>
>     >
>     >
>     > --
>     > Joe Huang
>     > White Box Technologies, Inc.
>     > 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
>     > Moraga CA 94556
>     >
>     > yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
>     <mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
>     > http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com
>     >  for simulation-ready weather data
>     > (o) (925)388-0265
>     > (c) (510)928-2683
>     > "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>     >
>     >
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