Review of typical vs. synthesized energy modeling weather files

Ibraheem A. Al-Mofeez, Mohammad Y. Numan, Khalid A. Alshaibani, and Faris A. Al-Maziad This paper reviews the widely used weather file formats, namely, typical meteorological year (TMY) of evolved versions, test reference year (TRY), weather year for energy calculation (WYEC), design reference year (DRY) as well as synthetically generated meteorological year (SMY) used in energy simul ... [J. Renewable Sustainable Energy 4, 012702 (2012)] published Fri Jan 13, 2012.