What to do when no Weather File is available?

Thanks Raphael and Jan,

I assume Meteonorm would be the best source of information for these kind
of cases. However; is that data representative enough to use it for design
just as if it were a measured data? Should we take anything special into
account?

THANKS!

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2014-06-20 10:42 GMT-04:00 Wienold Jan <[email protected]>:

Hi German,

in those cases, we usually use "Meteonorm" to generate a specific weather
data set. It interpolates from the closest weather stations and they have
a huge data basis. For Chile I would guess around 20 (just rough estimation
looking at the map).
But it is important to know that the hourly irradiation data is generated
stochastically from the monthly data (from the weather stations), so
Meteonorm does not use hourly measured data as basis.

So in some kind you get a artificial weather data set, based on the
interpolation of real measurements.
It includes also temperature and humidity, all you need for thermal
simulation, too.

The output can be chosen in different formats, also epw.

cheers,

Jan

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*From:* CHI-German Molina [[email protected]]
*Sent:* Friday, June 20, 2014 3:20 PM
*To:* Radiance general discussion
*Subject:* [Radiance-general] What to do when no Weather File is
available?

  Dear Everyone,

This question may be slightly out of the scope of this list; however, I
guess people here might be able to answer it.

I have been wondering, during the last few months, what do people do
when there is no available Weather File for a certain location.

An example is my country: there are 5 EPW available for Chile and one of
them is for Easter Island. For those who do not know, Chile is a very long
country, with many climates and latitudes. For what I remember from my
undergraduate classes, solar radiation can be obtained from monthly data.
Can we do anything for relative humidity and temperature?

Is there any other source of weather files that can be used? How about
Stocastic Weather Files generators?

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