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I would like to add to this a (hopefully) useful tool I created during my PhD research period: https://energysystems.mech.utah.edu/laf/
LAF is FREE and OPENSOURCE.
It allows the user to download weather data from more than 9000 stations in the US. The data are pulled from multiple networks, including airport data provided by the National Weather Service. The user can select multiple variables, multiple years, from multiple locations and multiple networks. The data are downloaded, polished and the gaps (if any) are filled to provide a CSV file with 8760 data points for each selected variable.
After that, the user can create AMY files, ready to be used in EnergyPlus and OpenStudio. The AMYs are created splicing the dowloaded weather data over the TMY3 file corresponding to the considered location.
The tool has been packed for Mac and Windows, but it is more reliable to launch it from Python directly.
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