[Equest-users] WEATHER DATA: White Box Technologies releases 2016 weather data for 8, 140 locations worldwide and other weather products

[Joe Huang via Equest-users]

White Box Technologies (WBT) has now made available 2016 weather files down through Oct 27 
for 8,140 locations around the world (2110 US, 275 Canadian, 5755 international).After the 
end of  year, these 2016 weather files will be updated at no additonal cost. Added to the 
weather files previously generated going back to 2001, the WBT Weather web site now 
contains 16-year time series of hourly weather for 6,500 locations, and shorter time 
series for another 3,500 locations, or over 130,000 weather files in all. WBT can also 
create "typical year" weather files for any of these locations, although one should check 
first whether there's an existing TMY3/CN2014 for a US or Canadian location, or a IWEC2 
file for an international location.

Please go here <http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2016_USACan_locations.txt> for a 
list of all 2016 files for US and Canada or here 
<http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ISH2016_Intern_locations.txt> for a list of all 2016 
files for international locations. To search for a weather file on the WBT Weather web 
site, please go here and use either the "Search by List" or the "Search by Google Maps" 
options.

In addition to the regular update of current year weather files, the following weather 
products have been introduced over the past 14 months:

*/1./**/MX2015/*is a set of "typical year" weather files for 119 Mexican locations based 
on 16 years of historical weather from 2001-2015, with satellite-derived solar radiation.

*/2./**/CN2014/*was introduced in Oct 2015 and contains "typical year" weather files for 
224 Canadian locations. They are based on 15 years of historical weather from 2000-2014, 
and thus 25 years more recent than the CWEC2, which used data ending in 1989. These will 
also be upgraded with satellite-derived solar radiation in 2017.

*/3./**/ISHRAE2/*is a set of "typical year" weather files for 62 Indian locations. These 
weather files were developed by WBT for ISHRAE in 2014 utilizing weather data from various 
sources in India and the US. The ISHRAE2 files are free in accordance to an agreement with 
the Indian government.

*/4./**/Custom TYP/*"typical year" weather files for 117 locations not covered in other 
weather data sets. These were done on demand for the past 5 years and generally cover 
underserved regions of the world, such as Latin America and Subsaharan Africa, and a few 
odd places in the US. For a list of these TYP files, please go here 
<http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/Custom_TYP_locations.txt> .

The following features and products have been previously announced but repeated here for 
new viewers:

*/5./**/Of special interest to eQUEST users/*, a feature was added in 2014 allowing users 
to create composite weather file combining data from two consecutive years but running 
from Jan. 1 of one year to Dec.31 of the preceding year. This is very handy when doing 
simulations for a project period that extends over two calendar years (see this memo 
<http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/creating_a_composite_year_wthrfile.pdf> for details).

*/6./**/Of special interest to EnergyPlus users/*, all WBT weather files are now provided 
with Design Day files (*.DDY), either from the /2013 ASHRAE Handbook of Fundamentals 
(HOF)/, or calculated from the historical record of that weather station. This second 
method is increasingly important, as the number of WBT weather stations is now 40% larger 
than the /HOF/, and also shows how design conditions can change over time.

*/7./**/ASHRAE IWEC2/*(*/I/*/nternational Weather for Energy Calculations/) is a large set 
of “typical year” weather files for 3,012 international locations outside of the USA and 
Canada. */IWEC2 /*weather files were developed in a 4-year project utilizing actual 
reports from thousands of weather stations around the world going back 25 years. */IWEC2/* 
weather files can be purchased either for individual locations, countryand region sets, or 
even the entire collection. For a complete list of all */IWEC2/* stations, see here 
<http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt>.  For more information, please 
gohere 
<cid:part7.1BC87CA0.560FB73B at whiteboxtechnologies.com><http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ashraelocations.txt>. 
*/IWEC2 /*files will soon also available from IES-VE and CYPE in early 2017.

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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"

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