Test reference year Germany
Updates: 01.07.2017
Focus: technical
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Developer/maintainer: German Weather Service (DWD) - DWD CDC FTP Server - Open Data
License: Free to use
Klassifikation: Weather data
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What is Test reference year Germany?
Location-specific Test Reference Years (TRY) for Germany for average and extreme weather conditions.
Further information
It includes hourly data for 365 days of a year. The data consists of: Coordinates (northing and easting in Lambert conformal conic projection, in meters, EPSG code: 3034), month, day, hour, cloud cover, wind direction, wind speed, air temperature, water vapor content, relative humidity, direct solar radiation on a horizontal surface, diffuse solar radiation on a horizontal surface, atmospheric thermal radiation on a horizontal surface, and the specific thermal radiation emitted by the Earth's surface.
Area of application
Weather Data