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IEA EBC Annex 80 "Typical and extreme weather datasets for studying the resilience of buildings to climate change" (Version 1.0)
This experiment collects the datasets created by the "Weather Data" group of the IEA EBC Annex 80 “Resilient Cooling for Buildings” project. These are datasets of current and future weather files for building energy performance simulation covering 15 locations in ten climate zones worldwide. The datasets contain ambient air temperature, relative humidity, atmospheric pressure, direct and diffuse solar irradiance, and wind speed at hourly resolution, which are essential climate elements needed to undertake building simulations. The datasets include typical and extreme weather years in the EnergyPlus weather file (EPW) format and multi-year projections in comma-separated value (CSV) format for three periods: historical (2001-2020), future mid-term (2041-2060), and future long-term (2081-2100). The weather files were generated based on the climate projections from the Regional Climate Model (RCM) MPI-RCA4, then bias-corrected using multiyear observational data for each city. The weather files are ready to be used in building energy simulations and systems design for adaptation and resilience studies.
The EPW is a weather file format used to run simulations in EnergyPlus. EPWs are text files and can be opened and edited in any text editor, spreadsheet tools or open-source software tools for creating and editing customised weather files, such as the Element software developed by Big Ladder Software ( https://bigladdersoftware.com/projects/elements/ ).
The EnergyPlus Auxiliary Programmes document (attached Additional Info) describes EPW weather data and provides general information on weather data for energy simulations and weather file conversion.
Funder:
- The Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, of the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231
- The Horizon 2020 project 0E-BUILDINGS, Grant agreement ID: 101024627
- The Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement Nº 101024627
- The Fraunhofer Internal Programs under Grant No. Attract 003-695033
- Det Energiteknologisk Udviklingsog Demonstrations Program (EUDP) under grant 64018-0578
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- Date (Publication)
- 2024-03-05
- Edition
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1
- Citation identifier
- WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0
- Citation identifier
- doi:10.26050/WDCC/WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0
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- Name
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other/diverse
- Keywords
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CORDEX
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- Keywords
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climate change
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- Keywords
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weather files
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- Use limitation
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CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- Language
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eng; USA
- Begin date
- 2001-01-01
- End date
- 2100-12-31
- Supplemental Information
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info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101024627/BE//0E-BUILDINGS
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EUDP//64018-0578/DK//None
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EERE//DE-AC02-05CH11231/US//None
- Distribution format
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other/diverse
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other/diverse
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- Transfer size
- 806
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Attribute description
- direct_normal_irradiance
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: W h m-2
- Attribute description
- surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air
- Descriptor
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surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2
- Attribute description
- air_temperature-atNearSurface
- Descriptor
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Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: degC
- Attribute description
- wind_from_direction
- Descriptor
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Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) In meteorological reports, the direction of the wind vector is usually (but not always) given as the direction from which it is blowing (wind_from_direction) (westerly, northerly, etc.). In other contexts, such as atmospheric modelling, it is often natural to give the direction in the usual manner of vectors as the heading or the direction to which it is blowing (wind_to_direction) (eastward, southward, etc.) "from_direction" is used in the construction X_from_direction and indicates the direction from which the velocity vector of X is coming. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: degree
- Attribute description
- dry_bulb_air_temperature
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: degC
- Attribute description
- total_sky_cover
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not filled; unit: 0.1
- Attribute description
- diffuse_horizontal_irradiance
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: W h m-2
- Attribute description
- wind_speed
- Descriptor
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Speed is the magnitude of velocity. Wind is defined as a two-dimensional (horizontal) air velocity vector, with no vertical component. (Vertical motion in the atmosphere has the standard name upward_air_velocity.) The wind speed is the magnitude of the wind velocity.[CF-Standard Name]; unit: m s-1
- Attribute description
- specific_humidity-atNearSurface
- Descriptor
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"specific" means per unit mass. Specific humidity is the mass fraction of water vapor in (moist) air.[CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: kg kg-1
- Attribute description
- air_pressure
- Descriptor
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air_pressure [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa
- Attribute description
- dew_point_temperature
- Descriptor
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Dew point temperature is the temperature at which a parcel of air reaches saturation upon being cooled at constant pressure and specific humidity. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: degC
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity
- Descriptor
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relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01
- Attribute description
- air_pressure-atSurface
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Air pressure is the force per unit area which would be exerted when the moving gas molecules of which the air is composed strike a theoretical surface of any orientation. [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: Pa
- Attribute description
- global_horizontal_irradiance
- Descriptor
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not filled; unit: W h m-2
- Attribute description
- wind_speed-atNearSurface
- Descriptor
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wind_speed-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: m s-1
- Attribute description
- relative_humidity-atNearSurface
- Descriptor
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relative_humidity-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01
- Attribute description
- cloud_area_fraction
- Descriptor
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"X_area_fraction" means the fraction of horizontal area occupied by X. "X_area" means the horizontal area occupied by X within the grid cell. Cloud area fraction is also called "cloud amount" and "cloud cover". The cloud area fraction is for the whole atmosphere column, as seen from the surface or the top of the atmosphere. The cloud area fraction in a layer of the atmosphere has the standard name cloud_area_fraction_in_atmosphere_layer. [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.1
- File identifier
- wdc-climate.de:5275069 XML
- Metadata language
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eng; USA
- Hierarchy level
- collection
- Hierarchy level name
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WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0
- Date stamp
- 2024-02-26T08:16:31
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115-2:2009
