FYI great source for international weather data

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Hi All,
FYI the link below is great source for international weather data. The service and software was new to me - so, I thought I'd pass it along in case others were unfamiliar with the company as well.

They sell weather creation software that can be used to create weather data for any location in the world - yes, ANY location. The weather data file can be created in various formats such as TMY, TM2 and others for direct use in the energy or other modeling software you are using. The software is around $600. Or, they can create a single weather file for a particular requested location and email it to you for around $80. I used this latter service. I requested it in the evening and had it the next morning!

http://www.meteonorm.com/pages/en/meteonorm.php

Happy modeling.
Julia

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While Meteonorm is a great product, users should be aware that it's
synthetic data generated by a computer program that extrapolates hourly
data from statistical data for a location, or if even the statistical
data are unavailable, interpolates from nearby locations

I'd also want to mention that ASHRAE will likely be releasing sometime
this year a large data set of IWEC2 weather files for over 3,000
international locations.

Joe Huang

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It's been pointed out that my reply below was inserted into the wrong email chain. This is the chain I meant to put it in. Hopefully, it will make more sense now.
Apologies, I'm going back to get another cup of coffee now.

Good point. Thanks for pointing that out. My understanding is that they use actual weather data from weather stations where they exist. So, if you happen to need weather data for one of
those sites, then you are getting actual weather data. If you request
an "in between" site, then they interpolate via triangulation to get
that weather data. However, they appear to be able to take into
account specific details of your site such as elevation, landscape, etc
if you have that info.

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Actual data means actual statistical data, i.e., monthly climate norms,
not actual hourly data. When you get a hourly weather file from
MeteoNorm, all the values are derived.

Joe Huang

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