Development of a REST API for obtaining site-specific historical and near-future weather data in EPW format

Du, Hu ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-0626, Jones, Phillip ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1559-8984, Segarra, Eva Lucas and Bandera, Carlos Fernández 2018. Development of a REST API for obtaining site-specific historical and near-future weather data in EPW format. Presented at: Building Simulation and Optimization 2018, Cambridge, UK, 11-12 September 2018. Proceedings of BSO 2018. International Building Simulation Asociation, pp. 629-634.

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Abstract

Obtaining site-specific high accuracy historical and near-future weather data have always been a challenging task for building simulation community to do either building performance analysis or predictive building control. Although ‘typical’ (such as TRY/TMY) or ‘extreme’ (such as DSY/DRY/EWF) weather files are made available, they often do not fit the purpose of studies. This paper demonstrates a novel approach to obtain real-time current and forecast weather in EPW format for building simulation using the free online toolchain. It is the first attempt to create weather API (Application programming interface) designed explicitly for building simulation community.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item - published (Paper)
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Architecture
Publisher:	International Building Simulation Asociation
ISSN:	3049-9070
Funders:	Sêr Cymru Programme
Projects:	Sêr Cymru Fellowship
Related URLs:	https://www.bso2018.event.cam.ac.uk/
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	15 May 2018
Last Modified:	22 Jul 2026 10:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/111475

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