Model America - Arizona extract from ORNL's AutoBEM

Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has developed the Automatic Building Energy Modeling (AutoBEM) software suite to process multiple types of data, extract building-specific descriptors, generate building energy models, and simulate them on High Performance Computing (HPC) resources. For more information, see AutoBEM-related publications (bit.ly/AutoBEM). Two sets of sample data are provided for 550,656 buildings located within the boundary of Arizona in the United States: Data (884.3MB *.csv) - minimalist list of each building (rows) for the following fields (columns) ID - unique building ID Centroid - building center location in latitude/longitude (from Footprint2D) Footprint2D - building polygon of 2D footprint (lat1/lon1_lat2/lon2_...) State_abbr - state name Area - estimate of total conditioned floor area (ft2) Area2D - footprint area (ft2) Height - building height (ft) NumFloors - number of floors (above-grade) WWR_surfaces - percent of each facade (pair of points from Footprint2D) covered by fenestration/windows (average 14.5% for residential, 40% for commercial buildings) CZ - ASHRAE Climate Zone designation BuildingType - DOE prototype building designation (IECC=residential) as implemented by OpenStudio-standards Standard - building vintage Sample Models (21.74GB*.zip by county) – OpenStudio and EnergyPlus building energy models named according to ID This data is made free and openly available in hopes of stimulating any simulation-informed use case. Data is provided as-is with no warranties, express or implied, regarding fitness for a particular purpose. We wish to thank our sponsors which include Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), U.S. Dept. of Energy’s (DOE) Building Technologies Office (BTO), Office of Electricity (OE), and Biological and Environmental Research (BER)

Future Typical Meteorological Year (fTMY) US Weather Files for Building Simulation for every US County (West and Midwest)

As global emissions and temperatures continue to rise, global climate models offer projections as to how the climate will change in years to come. These model projections can be used for a variety of end-uses to better understand how current systems will be affected by the changing climate. While climate models predict every individual year, using a single year may not be representative as there may be outlier years. It can also be useful to represent a multi-year period with a single year of data. Both items are currently addressed when working with past weather data by a using Typical Meteorological Year (TMY)methodology. This methodology works by statistically selecting representative months from a number of years and appending these months to achieve a single representative year for a given period. In this analysis, the TMY methodology is used to develop Future Typical Meteorological Year (fTMY) using climate model projections. The resulting set of fTMY data is then formatted into EnergyPlus weather (epw) fi les that can be used for building simulation to estimate the impact of climate scenarios on the built environment. This dataset contains fTMY fi les for 3281 US Counties in the continental United States. The data for each county is derived from six different global climate models (GCMs) from the 6th Phase of Coupled Models Intercomparison Project CMIP6-ACCESSCM2, BCC-CSM2-MR, CNRM-ESM2-1, MPI-ESM1-2-HR, MRI-ESM2-0, NorESM2-MM. The six climate models were statistically downscaled for 1980–2014 in the historical period and 2015–2059 in the future period under the SSP585 scenario using the methodology described in Rastogi et al. (2022). Additionally, hourly data was derived from the daily downscaled output using the Mountain Microclimate Simulation Model (MTCLIM; Thornton and Running, 1999). The shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) used for this analysis was SSP 5 and the representative concentration pathway (RCP) used was RCP 8.5. More information about SSP and RCP can be referred to O'Neill et al. (2020). More information about the six selected CMIP6 GCMs: ACCESS-CM2 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ES19040 BCC-CSM2-MR - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2977-2021 CNRM-ESM2-1- https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001791 MPI-ESM1-2-HR - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3241-2019 MRI-ESM2-0 - https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-051 NorESM2-MM - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6165-2020 Additional references: O'Neill, B. C., Carter, T. R., Ebi, K. et al. (2020). Achievements and Needs for the Climate Change Scenario Framework. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 1074–1084 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00952-0 Rastogi, D., Kao, S.-C., and Ashfaq, M. (2022). How May the Choice of Downscaling Techniques and Meteorological Reference Observations Affect Future Hydroclimate Projections? Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF002734. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002734 Thornton, P. E. and Running, S. W. (1999). An Improved Algorithm for Estimating Incident Daily Solar Radiation from Measurements of Temperature, Humidity and Precipitation, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 93, 211-228

Future Typical Meteorological Year (fTMY) US Weather Files for Building Simulation for every US County (East and South)

As global emissions and temperatures continue to rise, global climate models offer projections as to how the climate will change in years to come. These model projections can be used for a variety of end-uses to better understand how current systems will be affected by the changing climate. While climate models predict every individual year, using a single year may not be representative as there may be outlier years. It can also be useful to represent a multi-year period with a single year of data. Both items are currently addressed when working with past weather data by a using Typical Meteorological Year (TMY)methodology. This methodology works by statistically selecting representative months from a number of years and appending these months to achieve a single representative year for a given period. In this analysis, the TMY methodology is used to develop Future Typical Meteorological Year (fTMY) using climate model projections. The resulting set of fTMY data is then formatted into EnergyPlus weather (epw) fi les that can be used for building simulation to estimate the impact of climate scenarios on the built environment. This dataset contains fTMY fi les for 3281 US Counties in the continental United States. The data for each county is derived from six different global climate models (GCMs) from the 6th Phase of Coupled Models Intercomparison Project CMIP6-ACCESSCM2, BCC-CSM2-MR, CNRM-ESM2-1, MPI-ESM1-2-HR, MRI-ESM2-0, NorESM2-MM. The six climate models were statistically downscaled for 1980–2014 in the historical period and 2015–2059 in the future period under the SSP585 scenario using the methodology described in Rastogi et al. (2022). Additionally, hourly data was derived from the daily downscaled output using the Mountain Microclimate Simulation Model (MTCLIM; Thornton and Running, 1999). The shared socioeconomic pathway (SSP) used for this analysis was SSP 5 and the representative concentration pathway (RCP) used was RCP 8.5. More information about SSP and RCP can be referred to O'Neill et al. (2020). More information about the six selected CMIP6 GCMs: ACCESS-CM2 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/ES19040 BCC-CSM2-MR - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-14-2977-2021 CNRM-ESM2-1- https://doi.org/10.1029/2019MS001791 MPI-ESM1-2-HR - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-3241-2019 MRI-ESM2-0 - https://doi.org/10.2151/jmsj.2019-051 NorESM2-MM - https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-13-6165-2020 Additional references: O'Neill, B. C., Carter, T. R., Ebi, K. et al. (2020). Achievements and Needs for the Climate Change Scenario Framework. Nat. Clim. Chang. 10, 1074–1084 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-020-00952-0 Rastogi, D., Kao, S.-C., and Ashfaq, M. (2022). How May the Choice of Downscaling Techniques and Meteorological Reference Observations Affect Future Hydroclimate Projections? Earth's Future, 10, e2022EF002734. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022EF002734 Thornton, P. E. and Running, S. W. (1999). An Improved Algorithm for Estimating Incident Daily Solar Radiation from Measurements of Temperature, Humidity and Precipitation, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology, 93, 211-228