Generation of a typical meteorological year

Conference · Sun Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1978

OSTI ID:7013202

Hall, I J; Prairie, R R; Anderson, H E; Boes, E C

Because of the need for a common meteorological data base for use in solar energy systems studies, a group has undertaken the task of developing a method for generating a typical meteorological year (TMY). The developed method has then been used to generate a TMY for each of the 26 SOLMET Rehabilitation Stations that have hourly data. The meteorological measures used in the present study to select the TMY were: dry bulb temperature, dew point temperature, wind velocity, and solar radiations on a horizontal surface--standard year corrected. Most SOLMET Stations have data available over a 23-year period beginning in 1953 and extending through 1975. The process used to select a TMY for a given station involves selecting, by statistical methods, one typical meteorological month (TMM) for each of the twelve calendar months from the 23 year period and catenating the twelve months to form a TMY. Thus, the TMY for each station consists of 12 months of actual meteorological data selected from the long term data base from that station, 23 years in most cases. A TMY at a given station could, for example, consist of January 1955, February 1966, March 1962, ... ... December 1973.

• Research Organization: Sandia Labs., Albuquerque, NM (USA)
• DOE Contract Number: EY-76-C-04-0789
• OSTI ID: 7013202
• Report Number(s): SAND-78-1096C; CONF-780639-1
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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