Architecture & Design: S.A.M.E. Lab

Map of Weather Monitors (NOAA Meteorological Assimilation Data Ingest Systems)

Click the Map to visit the MADIS weather stations.
CWOP >>>>> MADIS

CLIMA

• Generate Climate Analysis with supplied weather data or upload your own EPW file.
• Upload formatted weather data from a local weather station.

 Betti G., Tartarini F., Nguyen C., Schiavon S. (2022). CBE Clima Tool: a free and open-source web application for climate analysis tailored to sustainable building design. Version: 0.8.10 https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2212.04609

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This weather station, (GW4054), sends this unique data set to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) through the Citizen's Weather Observation Program (CWOP). 

- location

- wind speed and direction

-average temperature

-average radiation

• Dry Bulb Temperature

• Wet Bulb Temperature

• Relative Humidity

• Wind Speed

• Direct Normal Radiation

• Diffuse Horizontal Radiation

• Global Horizontal Radiation

• UTCI

• Heat Index

UTCI, or Universal Thermal Climate Index, measures the heat stress on the human body induced by a set of climatic conditions – including air temperature, humidity, wind, and radiation. 

Heat Index (HI) is another measure of heat stress that uses relative humidity and dry bulb temperature to deduce the likelihood of heat disorders with prolonged exposure or strenuous activity . The metric is based off the National Weather Service’s (NWS) heat forecast tools. For each timestep in the climate file, the HI heatmap gives an indication of date, time, temperature, and a heat index of either no risk, caution, extreme caution, danger, or extreme danger.

These glare calculations are based on the Daylight Glare Probability (DGP) metric, developed by Wienold and Christofferen

ClimateStudio supports multi zone thermal simulations using the US Department of Energy’s EnergyPlus whole building simulation program.

PE and CO2 emission references `ANSI/ASHRAE/ICC/USGBC/IES Standard I89.I-2020`_ Table 7.5.2 Source Energy Conversion Factors and CO2e Emissions Factors. and Table 5-2b Primary Energy Conversion Factors

Prices are highly volatile and region dependent. Our values reference NYSERDA energy annual prices. Default prices are from New York State Residential Energy Prices in Nominal Dollars from the year 2018 with the exception of Coal and Gasoline prices. Coal price is from 2007 adjusted to 2018 dollar value based on GDP deflator. The gasoline price is from 2022 New York State Weekly Motor gasoline prices for Dec. 2022 Statewide converted into $/kWh based on the assumption of 113.45 btu/gallon energy density of Gasoline as reported by National Service Center for Environmental Publications Fuel Economy Impact Analysis of RFG.

Diesel is assumed to be equavalent to Fuel Oil (distillate) from ASHRAE table.

Wood Pellets The PE factor is assumed to be 1.1 and the CO2 conversion factor is assumed to be 0 (wood from sustainable sources with 0 carbon emissions).

Resources

Electricity CO2 varies depending on country and region.

• United States Environmental Protection Agency’s power profiler can look up fuel mix and CO2 emission by zip code.

• ANSI/ASHRAE/ICC/USGBC/IES Standard 189.1-2020 Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings - Table 7.5.2 Source Energy Conversion Factors and CO2e Emissions Factors contains US CO2 emission for each individual grid.

• Cambium NREL data sets contain modeled possible futures of the U.S. electricity sector through 2050 for hourly emission and cost.

• Electricity Maps has data on many countries’ electricity CO2 footprint.

Electricity Prices

• U.S. Bureau of Labor Statisitcs average energy prices provides electricity price per kWh by state.

Fuel Prices

• NYSERDA energy annual prices provides New York state prices for different fuels.