[Equest-users] Updated Canadian CWEC Weather Files

[Joe Huang]

According to the last documentation (see attached Release 9 dated Oct. 23 2008, see 
Appendices D and E at the end), the periods of record vary from place to place, but most 
end in 1989.

Joe

Joe Huang
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On 1/11/2018 7:50 AM, Ng, Jason via Equest-users wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> The government of Canada seems to have updated their engineering climate data sets to be 
> used for energy simulations. The new data sets can be found here:
>
> http://climate.weather.gc.ca/prods_servs/engineering_e.html
>
> I quickly compared a CWEC file available from the doe2 website with the latest 
> CWEC_V_2016 file from the website above for the same city and sure enough the number of 
> heating degree days have been reduced and cooling degree days have gone up.
>
> The issue I have with these files is I can’t seem to determine what years they are based 
> on. The text files available on their ftp site are outdated (they maintain the CWEC 
> files are based on data from 1960-1989), and the descriptions on the website are ambiguous.
>
> Given the recent flurry of activity on weather files, I figured someone would be able to 
> answer this pretty quickly!
>
> Many thanks,
>
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>
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>
> 	
>
> *Jason**Ng**_ing. M.Sc.A.***
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