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

[Joe Huang via Equest-users]

Sorry, there was a mistake on the last link of the previous announcement.  The working 
link for information on ASHRAE IWEC2 weather files is 
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ashrae .

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 12/12/2016 9:41 PM, Joe Huang wrote:
>
> 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<http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ashraelocations.txt>. 
> */IWEC2 /*files will soon also available from IES-VE and CYPE in early 2017.
>
> -- 
>
> 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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