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    <p>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.</p>
    <p>Joe<br>
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    <pre class="moz-signature" cols="90">Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com">yjhuang@whiteboxtechnologies.com</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com">http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com</a> for simulation-ready weather data
(o) (925)388-0265
(c) (510)928-2683
"building energy simulations at your fingertips"
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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 1/11/2018 7:50 AM, Ng, Jason via
      Equest-users wrote:<br>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA">Hello all,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="FR-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">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:<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><a
            href="http://climate.weather.gc.ca/prods_servs/engineering_e.html"
            moz-do-not-send="true">http://climate.weather.gc.ca/prods_servs/engineering_e.html</a><o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">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. <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">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          files available on their ftp site are outdated (they maintain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. <o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Given the recent flurry of activity on
          weather files, I figured someone would be able to answer this
          pretty quickly!<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal">Many thanks,<o:p></o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#F23C11;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
            lang="FR-CA">Vœux pour 2018 :
            <b><u>Santé</u></b> pour s’adapter aux changements + <b><u>Bonheur</u></b>
            avec les vôtres +
            <b><u>Volonté</u></b> de poser des gestes pour améliorer
            l’environnement + <b><u>Idée miracle</u></b> pour gérer
            facilement les courriels!
          </span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;color:#F23C11;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Bonne
            année!</span><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New
            Roman",serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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                  </span><span lang="FR-CA"><a href="http://www.bpa.ca/"
                      target="''" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times
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                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial
                      Black",sans-serif;color:#3F3F3F;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Jason</span></b><b><span
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                      Black",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"> <span
                        style="color:#3F3F3F">Ng</span></span></b><b><span
style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#7D7D7D;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">_ing.
                      M.Sc.A.</span></b><b><span
                      style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial
                      Black",sans-serif;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#A5A5A5;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a
                      href="mailto:jng@bpa.ca" title="Envoyer un
                      courriel/Send email" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="color:#A5A5A5">jng@bpa.ca</span></a>
                      |  <a href="http://www.bpa.ca" target="_blank"
                      title="www.bpa.ca" moz-do-not-send="true"><span
                        style="color:#A5A5A5">www.bpa.ca</span></a>  |  t:
                    5143833747x2813<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#BFBFBF;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"
            lang="FR-CA">Les informations contenues dans le courriel que
            vous venez de recevoir, y compris les pièces jointes, sont
            destinées à l’usage exclusif de la (ou des) personne(s)
            identifiée(s) comme destinataires et sont confidentielles.
            Si vous n’en êtes pas le destinataire, soyez avisé que tout
            usage en est interdit. Si vous avez reçu ce courriel par
            erreur, veuillez le retourner à l’expéditeur et le supprimer
            complètement de votre système informatique.</span><span
            lang="FR-CA"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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