SRG Technical Reports - All Weather-Related Titles

Please see the Weather Resources page at GARD Analytics for more weather-related links.

pdf document How to Create Meteonorm Weather Files for EnergyPlus
by Drury Crawley, USDOE, from the Building Energy Simulation User News, Vol. 26, No. 1 (January/February 2005)

 
sb12.pdf Near Real-Time Weather Data Archive, , by Nicholas Long. Proceedings of the SimBuild 2004 Conference, 4-6 August 2004, Boulder, CO, IBPSA-USA.

 
LBNL-51436
pdf document
DEVELOPMENT OF TYPICAL YEAR WEATHER DATA FOR CHINESE LOCATIONS
Zhang Qingyuan, Department of Architectural Engineering, Tsukuba College of Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; Joe Huang, Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA USA; Lang Siwei, Air-Conditioning Institute, China Academy of Building Research, Beijing.
ASHRAE Transactions 2002, v. 108. Pt. 2, held June 2002, Honolulu, Hawaii.

 
LBNL-51435
pdf document
DEVELOPMENT OF CHINESE WEATHER DATA FOR BUILDING ENERGY CALCULATIONS
Zhang Qingyuan, Tsukuba College of Technology, Tsukuba, Japan; Joe Huang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley CA, USA; Lang Siwei, China Academy of Building Research, Beijing.
Proc. 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings. pp. 1211, October 2-5 2001 Changsha, Hunan, China.

 
LBNL-51434 CHINA'S ENERGY EFFICIENCY DESIGN STANDARD FOR RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS IN THE "HOT-SUMMER/COLD-WINTER" ZONE
John Hogan, City of Seattle and Natural Resources Defense Council, Seattle Department of Design, Construction, and Land Use, 700 Fifth Avenue, Suite 2000, Seattle, Washington 98104 USA; Robert Watson, Natural Resources Defense Council (New York, USA); Joe Huang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley, USA); Lang Siwei, China Academy of Building Research, Compiling Team co-leader (Beijing, China); Professor Fu Xiangzhao, Chongqing Architecture (Jianzu) University, Compiling Team co-leader (Chongqing, China); Lin Haiyin, China Academy of Building Research, Compiling Team co-leader (Beijing, China).
Proc. 4th International Conference on Indoor Air Quality, Ventilation and Energy Conservation in Buildings. pp. 1211, October 2-5 2001 Changsha, Hunan, China.

 
EnergyPlus
pdf document
ENERGYPLUS: "IMPROVING THE WEATHER INFORMATION AVAILABLE TO SIMULATION PROGRAMS"

 
pdf document REGIONAL CHARACTERISTICS OF AIR-CONDITIONING LOADS FOR RESIDENCES IN CHINA
Q. Zhang, K. Asano, H. Imai, Tsukuba College of Technology, 4-3 Amakubo, Tsukuba 305-0005, Japan; Y. Joe Huang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA; H. Yang, Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China; T. Hayashi, Kyushu University, Kasuga, 816-8580, Japan; Y. Shijun, Tianjin University, Tianjin, China.
Proc. Building Simulation 2001, IBPSA, Rio de Janeiro, August 13-15, 2001.

 
DOE-2 Revised DOE-2 Weather Processor (.pdf)
Use this (2001) document to replace the original write-up in the DOE-2.1A Reference Manual.

 
General Has the Sun Set on Weather Data?(.pdf)
Discusses the Automated Surface Observing System (ASOS).

 
General Does It Matter Which Weather Data You Use in Energy Simulations?(.pdf)
Users of energy simulation programs often have a wide variety of weather data from which to choose.from locally recorded, measured data to typical data sets. Using a prototype building, the influence of locally measured weather data and typical weather data sets on annual energy consumption, demand, and costs are compared.

 
ARC Project
A89131897
(1995)
The Development of Modeling Strategies for Whole Sky Spectrums Under Real Conditions for International Use, Final Report (.pdf)
Geoffrey G. Roy (Murdoch Univ., Murdoch, WA 6150), Nancy Ruck (University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006), Graeme Reid (Murdoch Univ., Murdoch, WA 6150), Frederick Winkelmann (Lawrence Berkeley National laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720) and Warren Julian (University of Sydney, Sydney NSW 2006)

 
pdf document Climate Indicators for Estimating Residential Heating and Cooling Loads
Y. J. Huang, R. Ritschard, J. Bull, L. Chang Environmental Energy Technologies Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA
Proc. ASHRAE Winter Conference, New York, NY, January 18-21 1987.

 
General
download
The Rational Relationship Between Heating Degree Days and Temperature (by H. C. S. Thom, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 82, Number 1, January 1954)
and
Normal Degree Days above any Base by the Universal Truncation Coefficient (by H. C. S. Thom, Monthly Weather Review, Volume 94, Number 7, July 1966)