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Canadian Weather Year for Energy Calculation (CWEC)

644 datasets of Typical Meteorological Years (TMY) created by joining twelve Typical Meteorological Months selected from a database of up to 20 years of CWEEDS hourly data. The months are chosen by statistically comparing individual monthly means with long-term monthly means for daily total global solar irradiance, mean, minimum and maximum dry bulb temperature, mean, minimum and maximum dew point temperature, and mean and maximum wind speed. These hourly datasets are used by the engineering and scientific community mainly as inputs for solar system design and analysis and building energy systems analysis tools. This dataset has been updated with the most recent changes made in March 2023. The solar values in these files are based on 0.1° x 0.1° (11 km x 11 km grid) for all of Canada.

Refer to Data Resources below for additional information on the TMY file format.

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Date Created

2021-07-31

Date Published

2022-01-31

Temporal Coverage

1998-01-01 - 2020-12-31

Access in last 30 days

354

All time access

1,349

Source(s) and Citation

Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Federal Geospatial Platform. (2022-01-31). Canadian Weather Year for Energy Calculation (CWEC). Government of Canada;Natural Resources Canada;Strategic Policy and Innovation Sector, Federal Geospatial Platform.

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