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.
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:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php
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.
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:
http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/WB-weather/google-select.php
You might check weatheranalytics.com, Chuck Khuen has taken weather data
about as far as possible.
*Jeremiah D. Crossett*
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:
http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/isd/index.php
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.
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:
http://www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/WB-weather/google-select.php
Joe
Joe Huang