wdc-climate.de:5275069 eng; USA collection WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0 Dr. Anaïs Machard Scientific and Technical Building Research Centre not filled pointOfContact Dr. Agnese Salvati Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya not filled pointOfContact Dr. Mamak P.Tootkaboni Politecnico di Torino not filled pointOfContact Dr. Abhishek Gaur National Research Council Canada not filled pointOfContact 2024-02-26T08:16:31 ISO 19115 ISO 19115-2:2009 IEA EBC Annex 80 "Typical and extreme weather datasets for studying the resilience of buildings to climate change" (Version 1.0) 2024-03-05 publication 1 WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0 doi:10.26050/WDCC/WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0 Dr. Anaïs Machard Scientific and Technical Building Research Centre not filled Email: anais.machard@cstb.fr principalInvestigator Dr. Anaïs Machard Scientific and Technical Building Research Centre not filled Email: anais.machard@cstb.fr author Dr. Agnese Salvati Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya not filled Email: agnese.salvati@upc.edu author Dr. Mamak P.Tootkaboni Politecnico di Torino not filled Email: mamak.pourabdollahtootkaboni@polito.it author Dr. Abhishek Gaur National Research Council Canada not filled Email: Abhishek.Gaur@nrc-cnrc.gc.ca author Jiwei Zou Concordia University not filled Email: jiwei.zou@mail.concordia.ca author Liangzhu Wang Concordia University not filled Email: leon.wang@concordia.ca author Faud Baba Concordia University not filled Email: fuadbaba_15@hotmail.com author Hua Ge Concordia University not filled Email: hua.ge@concordia.ca author Facundo Bre Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas not filled Email: facubre@cimec.santafe-conicet.gov.ar author Emmanuel Bozonnet La Rochelle University not filled Email: emmanuel.bozonnet@univ-lr.fr author Vincenzo Corrado Politecnico di Torino not filled Email: vincenzo.corrado@polito.it author Xuan Luo Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory not filled Email: xuanluo@lbl.gov author Ronnen Levinson Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory not filled Email: rmlevinson@lbl.gov author Sang Hoon Lee Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory not filled Email: sanghlee@lbl.gov author Tianzhen Hong Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory not filled Email: thong@lbl.gov author Marcelo Salles Olinger University of Santa Catarina not filled Email: marcelo.olinger@gmail.com author Rayner Maurício e Silva Machado University of Santa Catarina not filled Email: rmauricio.eng@gmail.com author Emeli Lalesca Aparecida da Guarda University of Santa Catarina not filled Email: emeliguarda@gmail.com author Rodolfo Kirch Veiga University of Santa Catarina not filled Email: rodolfoksveiga@gmail.com author Roberto Lamberts University of Santa Catarina not filled Email: roberto.lamberts@ufsc.br author Afshin Afshari Fraunhofer Institute for Building Physics not filled Email: afshin.afshari@ibp.fraunhofer.de author Delphine Ramon KU Leuven not filled Email: delphine.ramon@kuleuven.be author Dung Ngo Hoang Ngoc KU Leuven not filled Email: hoangngocdung.ngo@kuleuven.be author Abantika Sengupta KU Leuven not filled Email: abantika.sengupta@kuleuven.be author Hilde Breesch KU Leuven not filled Email: hilde.breesch@kuleuven.be author Nicolas Heijmans Belgian Building Research Institute not filled Email: nicolas.heijmans@bbri.be author Jade Deltour Belgian Building Research Institute not filled Email: jade.deltour@bbri.be author Xavier Kuborn Belgian Building Research Institute not filled Email: xavier.kuborn@bbri.be author Sana Sayadi University of Gävle not filled Email: Sana.Sayadi@hig.se author Bin Qian Aalborg University not filled Email: bq@build.aau.dk author Chen Zhang Aalborg University not filled Email: cz@build.aau.dk author Ramin Rahif Université de Liège not filled Email: ramin.rahif@uliege.be author Shady Attia Université de Liège not filled Email: Shady.Attia@uliege.be author Philipp Stern Institute of Building Research and Innovation not filled Email: philipp.stern@building-research.at author Peter Holzer Institute of Building Research and Innovation not filled Email: peter.holzer@building-research.at author WDCC publisher 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 Dr. Anaïs Machard Scientific and Technical Building Research Centre not filled pointOfContact Dr. Agnese Salvati Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya not filled pointOfContact Dr. Mamak P.Tootkaboni Politecnico di Torino not filled pointOfContact Dr. Abhishek Gaur National Research Council Canada not filled pointOfContact other/diverse CORDEX climate change weather files CC-BY-4.0: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ eng; USA calendrical 2001-01-01 2100-12-31 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 direct_normal_irradiance not filled; unit: W h m-2 surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air surface_downwelling_shortwave_flux_in_air [CF-Standard Name]; unit: W m-2 air_temperature-atNearSurface Air temperature is the bulk temperature of the air, not the surface (skin) temperature. [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: degC wind_from_direction 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 dry_bulb_air_temperature not filled; unit: degC total_sky_cover not filled; unit: 0.1 diffuse_horizontal_irradiance not filled; unit: W h m-2 wind_speed 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 specific_humidity-atNearSurface "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 air_pressure air_pressure [CF-Standard Name]; unit: Pa dew_point_temperature 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 relative_humidity relative_humidity [CF-Standard Name]; unit: 0.01 air_pressure-atSurface 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 global_horizontal_irradiance not filled; unit: W h m-2 wind_speed-atNearSurface wind_speed-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: m s-1 relative_humidity-atNearSurface relative_humidity-atNearSurface [CF-Standard Name-vertical_coordinate]; unit: 0.01 cloud_area_fraction "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 other/diverse 806 https://www.wdc-climate.de/ui/entry?acronym=WDTF_Annex80_build_v1.0 information collection