GENERATION OF REPRESENTATIVE WEATHER - YEAR DATA FOR SAUDI-ARABIA

In recent years, the computation of load and energy requirement in bui ldings, energy conservation studies in buildings, and the design of so lar systems are not accomplished using long-term averages of weather d ata as inputs, but preferably with data-sets representative of the cli matological features of the site that are generated for this purpose. Such data-sets are the test reference year, typical meteorological yea r and weather year for energy calculations. In this paper, the basis, the selection procedure and the use of each of these data-sets are dis cussed Also, an attempt is made to generate typical weather years for the cities of Dhahran, Riyadh, Jeddah, Khamis-Mushayt and Hail, using the standard meteorological data obtained by measurements by the Meteo rology and Environmental Protection Administration.