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I have been providing a service for over ten years to produce
historical year weather files from NCDC's ISH (National Climatic
Data Center, Integrated Surface Hourly) data base, which is an
archive of actual raw weather data from around weather stations
around the world under a WMO (World Meteorological Organization)
agreement. There are about 8,000 international weather stations,
around 1,500 in the US, with sufficient data quality to warrant
creating hourly weather files. Last year, NCDC made the ISH freely
available on the Web via FTP:<br>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php">http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php</a><br>
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You're welcomed to root around and pick out your data of interest,
but keep in mind that this is raw weather data straight from the
reporting stations, so it has gaps, subhourly data, data fields
inconsistent with what simulation programs require, is in GMT, and
most critically, there is no solar data. What I've done is to
develop software to process ISH files to produce weather files
usable in DOE-2, EnergyPlus, or NREL's TMY2 and TMY3.csv formats.
The procedure is well-tested since it was used recently to produce
ASHRAE's IWEC2 weather files for 3,012 international locations.<br>
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I charge $75 for the first station/year, with a sharply declining
cost curve for multiple stations or years. To get an idea of the
coverage, please look at the following map showing all the ISH
stations for which I've already developed weather files for 2010:<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/WB-weather/google-select.php">http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/WB-weather/google-select.php</a><br>
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<br>
Joe<br>
<pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
Moraga CA 94556
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com">www.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
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On 7/27/2012 10:34 AM, Jesse Eisenhart wrote:
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<p><span>Does anyone know of a way to get weather data for a
current or specific year rather than a typical year? This
is for an M&V project with an abnormal weather event. </span></p>
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<p><span>Best, </span></p>
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<p><span>Jesse Eisenhart </span></p>
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