Design Reference Years and TestReference Years in Europe,

Turkey and Israel

Electronic CIB Publication No. 262

Author:Hans Lund

Technical University of DenmarkDepartment of Civil Engineering

CIB TG21 - Climatic Data for Building Services

Published electronically by:CIB General Secretariat

at:http://www.cibworld.nl/

February 2001

Copyright © 2000 by CIB

Design Reference Years and Test Reference Yearsin Europe, Turkey and Israel.

(Including where to get TRY and DRY files)

Hans Lundhlu@byg.dtu.dk

Department of Civil EngineeringTechnical University of Denmark

Updated 26. january 2001

Table of Contents

Background................................................................................................................................4

DRY and TRY stations .............................................................................................................5

Details......................................................................................................................................11

References ...............................................................................................................................12

Where to get TRY and DRY files (diskettes).......................................................................13

BackgroundTest Reference Years (TRY) and Design Reference Years (DRYs) are data files with hourlyweather data for 12 months. They are used as weather input in computer simulations of buildingenergy consumption, indoor climate and solar energy systems, and other systems demanding manydifferent weather parameters as input. Such systems most often contain non-linearites and energy"storages", making the use of mean values or superposition less productive.

TRYs have been produced with many different methods, and under various names. In USA themost common names are Typical Meteorological Years (TMY or TMY2) or Weather Year forEnergy Calculations (WYEC or WYEC2).

The Design Reference Years (for Switzerland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark) are producedaccording to methods agreed upon in the IEA Solar Heating and Cooling Programme, Subtask 9 E,Solar Radiation and Pyranometry Studies. (Skartveit, Lund and Olseth 1994; Lund 1995).

The Test Reference Years for Italy, France, United Kingdom, Ireland, Belgium, the Netherlandsand Denmark are produced according to methods agreed upon in the European Community. Thesame is valid for the Test Reference Years for Portugal, and with some modifications, for Turkey,Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Russia and Hungary. (Lund and Eidorff 1980; Dogniaux 1980; Lund1985).

The Test Reference Years for Germany are produced according to methods developed at the FreieUniversität in Berlin and German Weather Service in Offenbach. The proper Test Reference Yearfor any site in Germany is specified with the postal (ZIP) code. (Blümel et al 1986; Christoffer andHollan 2000)

As a part of the EC PASCOOL-programme Typical Meteorological Years (TMY) have beenproduced for a number of cities: Athens, Ljubljana and Budapest, as well as Perpignan and LaRochelle, France, and Malaga, Madrid and Sevilla, Spain, and Geneve, Switzerland. The US TMY-method is used (Hall,et al. 1978; Marion and Urban 1995; Petrakis 1995).

DRY and TRY stations Id./ Latitude Longitude AltitudeNorway Abbr. deg deg mDesign Reference YearsOslo 59.93 10.73 94Bergen 60.40 5.32 45Andøya 69.15 16.30 10

Sweden Design Reference YearStockholm 59.35 18.07 30

Denmark Design Reference YearKøbenhavn COP 55.67 12.32 19

EC Test Reference YearKøbenhavn COP 55.67 12.32 19

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Id./ Latitude Longitude AltitudeSwitzerland Abbr. deg deg mDesign Reference YearsAltdorf ALT 46.87 8.63 449Basel-Binningen BAS 47.55 7.58 316Bern Liebefeld BER 46.93 7.42 565Chur-Ems CHU 46.87 9.53 555Davos DAV 46.82 9.85 1590Geneve-Cointrin GVE 46.25 6.13 420Glarus GLA 47.03 9.07 515Interlaken INT 46.67 7.87 580La Chaux-de-Fonds CDF 47.08 6.80 1018Locarno-Magadino MAG 46.17 8.88 197Luzern LUZ 47.03 8.30 456Samedan-St.Moritz SAM 46.53 9.88 1705Sion SIO 46.22 7.33 482St.Gallen STA 47.43 9.40 779Zürich SMA SMA 47.38 8.57 556Zürich-KLoten KLO 47.48 8.53 436Payerne PAY 46.82 6.95 490Pully PUY 46.52 6.67 461Wynau WYN 47.25 7.78 422Guettingen GUT 47.60 9.28 440Lugano LUG 46.00 8.97 273Montana-Vermala MVE 46.32 7.48 1508

Austria Test Reference YearWien 48.25 16.37 202

Belgium EC Test Reference YearsSaint-Hubert SHU 50.03 5.40 563Uccle (Bruxelles) UCL 50.80 4.35 105

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Oostende OST 51.20 2.87 4

The Czech Republic Test Reference YearKucharovice 48.88 17.63 334Svatouch 49.73 16.03 737 Praha/Libus 50.00 14.45 303Hradec Králové 50.18 15.83 285Usti nad Labem 50.68 14.03 376

France EC Test Reference YearsNice NIC 43.65 7.20 10Carpentras CAR 44.08 5.05 105Limoges LIM 45.82 1.28 284Macon MAC 46.30 4.80 217Nancy NAN 48.68 6.22 204Trappes TRA 48.77 2.02 168

Id./ Latitude Longitude AltitudeFrance (cont.) Abbr. deg deg mCSTB Test Reference YearNice 43.65 7.20 10Carpentras 44.08 5.05 105Agen 44.18 0.60 59Limoges 45.82 1.28 284La Rochelle 46.15 -1.15 4Rennes 48.07 -1.72 37Nancy 48.68 6.22 204Trappes 48.77 2.02 16PASCOOL TMYs for La Rochelle and Perpignan (appr. 42.67 N, 3.00E)

Germany Test Reference Years. A new set with fifteen TRYs have beenpublished in 2000:Bremerhaven (Norderney) 1 52.47 8.58 7 North Sea

CoastRostock-Warnemünde

(Heiligendamm) 2 54.18 12.08 4 Baltic CoastHamburg-Fuhlsbüttel Northwest German

(Hamburg-Sasel) 3 53.63 10.00 16 LowlandPotsdam 4 52.37 13.08 81 Northeast German

LowlandEssen (Bochum) 5 51.40 6.97 152 See below for

areaBad Marienberg descrip. in

German)(Lüdenscheid) 6 51.22 7.63 547 id.

Kassel 7 51.30 9.45 231 id.Braunlage 8 51.73 10.60 607 id.Chemnitz 9 50.80 12.87 418 idHof (Zinnwald) 10 50.32 11.88 585 id.Fichtelberg 11 50.43 12.95 1213 id.Mannheim 12 49.52 8.55 96 id.Passau (Weihenstephan) 13 48.58 13.47 409 id.Stötten (Stuttgart) 14 48.67 9.87 734 id.Garmisch-Partenkirchen 15 47.5 11.1 719 id.

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All data are from the mentioned station, names in parenthesesindicates that radiation data only are taken from this nearbystation.

Area description in German:1. Nordseeküste. 2. Ostseeküste. 3. NordwestdeutscheGeestgebiete. 4. Nordostdeutsches Tiefland. 5. Neiderrheinisch-westfälische Bucht und Emsland. 6. Nördliche und westlicheMittelgebirge, Randgebiete. 7. Nördliche und westlicheMittelgebirge, zentrale Bereiche. 8. Oberharz und Schwarzwald(mittlere Lagen). 9. Thüringer Becken und Sächsische Hügelland.10. Südöstliche Mittelgebirge unterhalb 1000 m. 11. Erzgebirge,Böhmer- und Schwarzwald oberhalb 1000 m. 12. Oberrheingraben undunteres Neckartal. 13. Schwäbisch-fränkisches Stufenland undAlpenvorland. 14. Schwäbische Alb und Baar. 15. Alpenrand und -täler.

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Germany (cont.) Id./ Latitude Longitude Altitude

Abbr. deg deg mAn older set of TRYs from 1986 for Western Germany may still be inuse: Bremerhafen 1 53.53 8.58 7Hannover 2 52.47 9.70 53Essen 3 51.40 6.97 154Trier 4 49.75 6.67 277Würzburg 5 49.80 9.90 263Frankfurt/Main 6 50.05 8.58 110Freiburg 7 48.00 7.85 308Augsburg 8 48.38 10.85 477München 9 48.15 11.72 527Stötten 10 48.67 9.87 734Hof 11 50.32 11.88 567Friederichshafen 12 47.65 9.48 401

Greece PASCOOL TMYAthinai 37.97 23.72 107 Older TRYs for Athens andThessaloniki 40.62 22.95 31Heraklion 35.33 25.18 38

The PASCOOL TMY for Athens is also available in EC TRY format.

Hungary Test Reference Year and a PASCOOL TMYBudapest-Lorinc 47.43 19.18 140

Ireland EC Test Reference YearsValentia VAL 51.93 -10.25 20Dublin DUB 53.43 -6.25 85

Italy EC Test Reference YearsTrapani TRI 37.92 12.50 14Crotone CRO 39.07 17.07 158Cagliari CAG 39.58 9.05 18Foggia/Amendola FAM 41.52 15.72 56Roma Ciampino ROM 41.80 12.58 131Monte Terminillo MTO 42.47 12.98 1875Genove Sestri GEN 44.42 8.85 3Milano Linate MIL 45.43 9.28 103Venezia VEN 45.50 12.33 6Bolzano BOL 46.47 11.33 241

The Netherlands EC Test Reference Years

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Vlissingen VLI 51.45 3.60 22De Bilt DEB 52.10 5.18 40Eelde EEL 53.13 6.58 5

Portugal Test Reference YearsLisboa 38.72 -9.15 77Coimbra 40.20 -8.42 141

Id./ Latitude Longitude AltitudeRussia Abbr. deg deg mTest Reference Year St. Petersburg 59.97 30.30 72

Slovakia Test Reference YearBratislava-Koliba 48.17 17.12 286Hurbanovo 47.87 18.20 115Strbské Plevo 49.12 20.07 1360Trebisov-Milhostov 48.67 21.73 104Sliac 48.65 19.13 313

Slovenia PASCOOL TMYLjubljana 46.07 14.52 299

Spain PASCOOL TMYsMalaga 36.67 -1.50 7Sevilla 37.42 -5.90 31Madrid 40.45 -3.72 664

United Kingdom EC Test Reference YearsKew (London) KEW 51.47 -0.32 5Aberporth ABE 52.13 -4.57 133Eskdalemuir ESK 55.32 -3.20 242Lerwick LER 60.13 -1.18 82

CIBSE TRYsLondon Heathrow/Bracknell 51.38 -0.78 73Manchester Ringway/Aughton 53.55 -2.92 54Edinburgh Turnhouse/Mylnefield 56.45 -3.07 30The latter part and the coordinates relates to solar radiationsite.

Older CIBSE Example YearsCamborne 50.22 -5.32 88Bristol 51.50 -1.98 -Heathrow 51.38 -0.78 73Norwich 52.68 1.68 13Birmingham 52.45 -1.73 96Kew 51.47 -0.32 5Sheffield 53.48 -1.00 10Manchester 53.55 -2.92 55Newcastle 55.42 -1.60Aberporth 52.13 -4.57 134Eskdalemuir 55.32 -3.20 242

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Aldergrove 54.65 -6.22 68Dundee 57.13 -3.07 30Aberdeen 57.17 -2.08 35Glasgow 56.47 -5.43 3The CIBSE Example Year are available both as one calendar year or as twelve contigous month, october through september.

Turkey Test Reference YearsDiyarbakir 37.95 40.20 660 Warm-aridAntalya 36.88 30.70 42 Warm-humidAnkara 39.95 32.88 902 Temp.-aridIstanbul 40.97 29.08 40 Temp-humidErzurum 39.92 41.27 1869 Cold

Israel Test Reference YearBet Dagan 32.00 34.82 30

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DetailsBesides the information regarding the Design Reference Years and Test Reference Years givenin the list above, other details could be mentioned:

The station coordinates in the table are those given for the TRYs or DRYs. In some cases theyare different from data from other sources. This may be due to change of station location, orbecause climatic measurements and radiation measurements comes from different sites.

Most TRY and DRY files contain in each record (line) a station identifier (Id./Abbr.) as 1 - 3digits or characters. If known, the identifier is given here. The German TRYs files have a headerwith station name and coordinates.

The Swiss Design Reference Years are available included in a software package, METEO-NORM'95, with a manual (book), disks and software. The software produce output in German,English, French and Italian. This package contains also weather files (other than TRYs) for alarge number of sites in Switzerland, and for some places in Europe,. In the '96 and newer editionthe DRYs in this package have diffuse and direct normal (beam) radiation, in the first editionthese data were computed with software included (Remund, Salvisberg, Kunz 1996).

The Belgian TRYs are available in a special format with half-hourly radiation data.

For Berlin also a Test Reference Year was published in 1977 by Dr. Axel Jahn.

The "Example Years" are available both as January-December Years and as October-SeptemberYears. 4 stations (Glasgow, Manchester, Norwich and Camborne) have radiation data and otherdata taken from two different sites, up to 80 km apart. The coordinates refer to the radiationmeasurements. The Example Year is one calendar year or 12 contiguous months. Dr. Loxsom,The Polytechnic of Central London, has produced a Test Reference Year for Kew.

The PASCOOL TMYs contain global radiation, temperature, humidity and wind speed. TheAthens TMY have also diffuse radiation, and a version in EC-TRY format has been produced.There are PASCOOL TMYs for Athens, Geneve, Zürich, La Rochelle, Perpignan, Budapest,Malaga, Madrid, Sevilla and for Sofia, May through September (Petrakis).

The French CSTB TRYs contain only global radiation, temperature and humidity. At themoment no supplier is known.

The Danish TRY is available in the EC TRY-format, and in a larger format with moreparameters.

The Austrian TRY, for Wien, is composed of two seasons, instead of twelve months. It hasnot been possible to locate a supplier now.

For Sweden, a single year has been selected as Test Reference Year for Malmö, Stockholm andUmeå. For Zürich/Kloten, Switzerland and Valencia, Spain, single years have been used as aTRY. For Finland, a single year (1979) is used as TRYs for Helsinki, Jyväskyla andSodankyla.

A TRY has been produced for Noví Sad, Serbia. It has neither been possible to locate the TRY norcontact persons.

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ReferencesBlümel, K., E. Hollan, M. Kähler, R. Peter, A. Jahn (1986): Entwiklung von Testreferenzjahren(TRY) für Klimaregionen der Bundesrepublik Deutschland. Forschungsbericht BMFT-FB-t86-051.

Christoffer, J., E. Hollan (2000): Testreferenzjahre von Deutschland für mittlere und extremeWitterungsverhältnisse. Bericht Deutscher Wetterdienst Nr. xxx. In preparation.

Dogniaux, R. (1980) The Belgian Method for Selection of Standard Multidimensional Series. App.G in: Lund, H., S. Eidorff (1980) Selection methods for production of Test Reference years. Finalreport (short version). Report no EUR 7306 EN. (Available from Techn. Univ. of Denmark, Dept.of Buildings and Energy).

Hall, I., R. Prairie, H. Anderson, E. Boes (1978): Generation of Typical Meteorological Years for26 SOLMET stations. SAND78-1601. Albuquerque, NM. Sandia National Laboratories.

Marion, W., Ken Urban (1995): Users manual for TMY2s, Typical Meteorological Years.National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Golden, Colorado.

Lund, H. (1985a): Short Reference Years and Test Reference Years for EEC countries. ThermalInsulation Laboratory, Techn. Univ. of Denmark. Final report EUR 10208 EN.

Lund, H.(1985b: Test Reference Years TRY. Commission of the European Communities, report no. EUR 9765.(Available from Techn. Univ. of Denmark, Dept. of Buildings and Energy).

Lund, H. (1995): The Design Reference Year. Thermal Insulation Laboratory, Tech. Univ. ofDenmark, report no 274.

Petrakis, M.: A Software Tool for Creation of a Typical Meteorological Year, Final report ofthe PASCOOL project, CEC. National Observatory of Athens.

Remund, Jan, Esther Salvisberg, Stefan Kunz. (1997): Meteonorm 3.0 .

Meteotest, Fabrikstrasse .14 CH-3012 Bern, Switzerland.

Skartveit, A., H. Lund, Jan Asle Olseth (1994): The Design Reference Year. The NorvegianMeteorological Institute, report no. 11/94 Klima.

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Where to get TRY and DRY files (diskettes)Prices are for one TRY unless otherwise specified.

DenmarkEC TRYs:Cenergia ApSSct. Jacobsvej 4DK-2750 Ballerup, DenmarkTel.: (45) 4466 0099Fax: (45) 4466 0136e-mail: Cenergia@compuserve.comPrices: 1 EC-TRY 1000 DCr.

29 EC-TRYs 3000 DCr.At the moment the only supplier of all EC-TRYs

DRY:Department of Civil EngineeringTechnical University of DenmarkBuilding 118DK-2800 Lyngby, DenmarkContact person: Hans LundTel: (45) 4525 1883Fax: (45) 4593 4430

DRY with a report in Danish:Byggecentrum, BookstoreDr. Neergaardsvej 15DK-2970 Hørsholm, DenmarkTel.: (45) 4576 73 73Fax: (45) 4576 76 69Price: 250 DCr.

BelgiumInstitut Royal Météorologique3, av. CirculaireB-1180 BruxellesTel.: (32) 2 373 06 23Fax: (32) 2 374 67 88

FinlandFinnish Meteorological InstituteVuorikatu 24, P.O.Box 503SF - 00101 HelsinkiTel.: (358) 9 192 91Fax: (358) 9 179 581

FranceEC TRYs:Direction de la MétéorologiqueService Météorologique Metropolitain2, avenue RappF-75340 Paris Cedex 07, France

CSTB TRYs: Mr Christan SacreCentre Scientifique et Technique du BâtimentDivision Climatologie

11 rue Henri PicheritF-44071 Nantes Cedex 03, FranceTel.: (33) 40 37 20 00Fax: (33) 40 37 20 40

GermanyDeutscher WetterdienstFrankfurter Str. 135D-63067 Offenbach, Germanyatt.: Dr. Jürgen ChristofferTel.: (49) 698 062 2967Fax: (49) 698 062 2993

GreeceNational Observatory of AthensInstitute of Meteorology and Physics of the Atmospheric EnvironmentDr. Mike PetrakisP.O. Box 20 048 GRLGR - 118 10 Athinai, GREECETel.: (30) 1 3456 257Fax: (30) 1 3464 566

HungaryHungarian Meteorological ServiceDr. György MajorP.O.Box 39H-1675 Budapest, HungaryTel. and fax: (361) 290 73 87email: gmajor@met.hu

IrelandMeteorological ServiceGlasnevin HillIRL-Dublin 9, IrelandTelex: 91444Tel: (353) 1 842 4411Fax: (353) 1 836 9115

IsraelTechnionEnvironmental & Water Resourcesatt.: Mr Samuel HassidHaifa-32,000 ISRAEL

ItalyNational Research CouncilProgetti EnergeticVia Nizza 123I-00198 Roma, Italy (Now NRC seems not to distribute EC-TRYs.)

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The NetherlandsEC TRYsRoyal Netherlands Meteorological Institute KNMIClimatological ServiceP.O.Box 201NL-3730 AE De Bilt, The NetherlandsTel.:(31) 30 220 6850Fax:(31) 30 221 0407Price : DFl 540, excl VAT.

NorwayDRYsNorwegian Meteorological InstituteDep. of ClimatologyBox 43, BlindernN - 0313 Oslo 3, Norway Tel.: (47) 2 96 3000Fax: (47) 2 96 3050Price: 2500 NCr.

PortugalInst. Nacional de Meteorologia e GeofisicaRua C - AeroportaP-1700 Lisboa, PortugalFax: 351 1 847 4333

RussiaTRYDr. V. P. Meleshko, DirectorVoeikov Main Geophysical Observatory7, Karbyshev Street194 018 St. Petersburg, RussiaTel.: (7) 812 247 4390 Fax: (7) 812 247 8661e-mail: wrdc@mgo.rssi.ruContact persons: Prof. E. Borisenkov (MGO) andDr. Anatoli Tsvetkov (WRDC)

SlovakiaTRYsKatedra KPS, dr. Milan JanakStavebná fakultaSloveská Technická UniverzitaRadlinského 11813 68 Bratislava, The Slovak RepublicTel.: (421) 7 361 815 Fax: (421) 7 325 618e-mail: milan@ultra.svf.stuba.skPrice: 300 ecu

SloveniaUniversity of LjubljanaFaculty of Civil and Geodetic Engineeringatt.: Prof. Ales KrainerP.O.Box 4322SI-1000 Ljubljana, SloveniaTel.: (386) 61 176 8604Fax: (386) 61 125 0681e-mail: A.Krainer@fagg.uni-lj.si

SpainIER-CIEMATDr. l. F. ZarzalejoAvda. Complutence 22E - 28040 Madrid, SPAINFax: (34) 1 3466 037

SwedenDRYSwedish Meteorological and Hydrological InstituteS - 60176 Norrköping, SwedenTel.: (46) 11 15 82 02Fax: (46) 11 15 82 61Price: DRY 12,260 SCr.

SwitzerlandDRYs:Swiss Federal Laboratories for MaterialsTesting and Research (EMPA)Section Building PhysicsUeberlandstr. 129CH-8600 DübendorfTel.: (41) 1 823 55 11Fax: (41) 1 821 62 44

Meteonorm 3.0 (incl. 22 DRYs):MeteotestFabrikstrasse 14CH-3012 Bern, Switzerlandtel.: (41)fax: (41) 31 307 26 26

TurkeyTRYsTübitak, Building Research Institute221, Atatürk BulvariTurkey - 06100 Kavaklidere Ankara, Turkey

United KingdomEC and CIBSE TRYs, Design sequences anddetailed hourly data:The Met OfficeEnvironmental Consultancy OfficeJohnson House, London RoadBracknellBerkshire RG12 2SY, UKTel.: (44) 1344 85 6853Fax: (44) 1344 85 4588e-mail: climate@meto.gov.uk

CIBSE Example Years:IES FACETDrover House16 Adelaide StreetSt Albans, Herts AL3 5BHTel.: (44) 1727 85 0830Fax: (44) 1727 85 8844e-mail: hans@ies4d.com

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