[Equest-users] Measured, Raw Weather file

[Joe Huang via Equest-users]

It looks like what you've got is a statistical summary file (sometimes 
called "Climate  Normals"), not the actual raw data from a weather 
station. It's basically impossible to take such statistical summaries to 
create an hourly weather file , which is what you would need for use in 
a simulation program such as eQUEST.  An actual raw weather file would 
show the time stamp (year, date, time, etc.) and have values for 
temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, cloud cover, etc., but 
almost never solar radiation.

I have been downloading raw weather data from the US National Climatic 
Data Center for thousands of stations around the world (including 30 or 
so in Mexico), and processing them into weather files that can be used 
in simulation programs.  Please take a look at my Web site 
(http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com )  for more details.

Joe

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On 8/25/2016 6:48 PM, José Luis Bermúdez Alcocer via Equest-users wrote:
> To whom it may concern,
>
> I am working with a measure, raw weather file.  Has anybody worked 
> with these type of files?  I need to know about the titles of the 
> different weather variables that are registered in the columns.  The 
> titles are the following ones:
>
> 1) Temp Out
> 2) Hi Temp
> 3) Low Temp
> 4) Out Hum
> 5) Wind Run
> 6) Hi Speed
> 7) Hi Dir
> 8) Heat Index
> 9) THW Index
> 10) THSW Index
> 11) Bar
> 12) Solar Rad.
> 13) Solar Energy
> 14) Hi Solar Rad.
> 15) Heat D-D (Is it heating degree days?)
> 16) Cool D-D (Is it cooling degree days?)
> 17) In Temp
> 18) In Hum
> 19) In Dew
> 20) In Heat
> 21) In EMC
> 22) In Air Density
> 23) ET
> 24) Wind Samp
> 25) Wind Tx
> 26) ISS Recept
> 27) Arc. Int.
>
> I know that I need to get the following variables (from the previous 
> ones) for a weather file:
>
> 1) Wet bulb temperature
> 2) Dry bulb temperature
> 3) Pressure
> 4) Cloud amount
> 5) Snow flag
> 6) Rain flag
> 7) Wind direction
> 8) Humidity Ratio
> 9) Density of air
> 10) Specific Enthalpy
> 11) Total Horizontal Solar
> 12) Direct Normal Solar
> 13) Cloud Type
> 14) Wind Speed
>
> Any comment will be highly appreciated!
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Jose Luis Bermudez Alcocer, Ph.D., M.Arch., B.Arch.
>
>
>
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