Weather file for Dammam-Saudi Arabia

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Hello, I'm modelling a building in Dammam-Saudi Arabia using EQuest. Does anyone have the weather file please?
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There is an ASHRAE IWEC2 weather file for Dhahran (SAU_DHAHRAN_404160_IWC2, Lat 26.27N,
Lon 50.20E), located 23 kilometers to the southeast of Dammam. There are also IWEC2
weather files for 26 other locations in Saudi Arabia. IWEC2 weather files were developed
in a 4-year ASHRAE project utilizing actual weather reports from thousands of stations
throughout the world going back 25 years. The entire set of 3,012 IWEC2 weather files is
available on a DVD from ASHRAE for $229. See www.techstreet.com/ashrae/products/1823067
for details. For a complete list of all IWEC2 stations, see
www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt.

Individual IWEC2 weather files are also available from my company (White Box Technologies)
in various formats (BINM for DOE-2, EPW for EnergyPlus, etc.) for $35 per location. To
order an IWEC2 weather file online, please go to
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ASHRAE/

Joe

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Joe,

Do you know of other reliable weather databases?, I'm in Colombia and the
links you describe have only 5 cities, all far away from one of my projects,
which is located on the island of San Andr?s.

Any help would be very appreciated.
Thanks!

Miguel A. Berm?dez

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De: Joe Huang [mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com]
Enviado el: Thursday, May 09, 2013 9:16 PM
Para: equest-users at lists.onebuilding.org
Asunto: Re: [Equest-users] Weather file for Dammam-Saudi Arabia

There is an ASHRAE IWEC2 weather file for Dhahran (SAU_DHAHRAN_404160_IWC2,
Lat 26.27N,
Lon 50.20E), located 23 kilometers to the southeast of Dammam. There are
also IWEC2
weather files for 26 other locations in Saudi Arabia. IWEC2 weather files
were developed
in a 4-year ASHRAE project utilizing actual weather reports from thousands
of stations
throughout the world going back 25 years. The entire set of 3,012 IWEC2
weather files is
available on a DVD from ASHRAE for $229. See
www.techstreet.com/ashrae/products/1823067
for details. For a complete list of all IWEC2 stations, see
www.whiteboxtechnologies.com/IWEC2_locations.txt.

Individual IWEC2 weather files are also available from my company (White Box
Technologies)
in various formats (BINM for DOE-2, EPW for EnergyPlus, etc.) for $35 per
location. To
order an IWEC2 weather file online, please go to
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com/ASHRAE/

Joe

Joe Huang

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Not sure they have the city you're interested in, try
www.weatheranalytics.com.

Jim Fowler, PE, CBCP, CEA

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I responded to Miguel by e-mail already, but I guess I should have cc it
to the bulletin board to avoid misleading impressions.
Here's what I said to Miguel:

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Subject: Re: [Equest-users] Weather file for Dammam-Saudi Arabia
Date: Fri, 10 May 2013 16:26:08 -0700

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Hi Joe, Many thanks for the great information. Need to know if  ASHRAE CD has the data in BINM format and can Equest read it without having to modify it to BIN format first. Would I be able to open the BINM file in a spreadsheet and access the raw data? thank you

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