Typical years and historical time series - easily accessible with Meteonorm.

• + 30 Meteorological parameters

• + 36 Different export formats

• Easy user interface

• Historical timeseries

Updated historic, current and future data

• New data periods (2000-2019 / 1996-2015)

• Updated current data / timeseries for Americas and Asia

• Updated future data (IPCC scenarios)

In addition, Meteonorm Version 8 offers the following new features:

• Access to ongoing current time series based on satellite worldwide (55°S to 65°N) and Re-Analysis data (ERA-5T) for rest of the world

• New satellite data based on an own, globally homogeneous satellite model, including satellite data for Asia and the Americas

• Future data for IPCC Scenarios RCP 2.6, 4.5 and 8.5 from 10 global climate models based on CMIP5 are included (2020 - 2100)

• Detailed model for urban effects based on the H2020 climate-fit.city project. 100 cities in Europe include urban effects for the contemporary climates. Barcelona, Berlin, Bern, Bremen, Prague, Rome and Vienna additionally include urban effects of 2050 for two scenarios.

• Current data (downloaded timeseries) include the new parameters Td, FF, DD and RR (previously only Ta and Gh)

• The software was partly refactored, updated and bugs fixed. Climate data are mostly stored as .png files to achieve maximum compression rates.

• Clearer structure and separation of climate and/or imported / current data

Global climate database

Meteonorm generates accurate and representative typical years for any place on earth. You can choose from more than 30 different weather parameters.

The database consists of more than 8 000 weather stations, five geostationary satellites and a globally calibrated aerosol climatology. On this basis, sophisticated interpolation models, based on more than 30 years of experience, provide results with high accuracy worldwide.

An open system

You can import of any third party data, be it from satellites or from measurement stations and still profit from all tools inside Meteonorm.

The intuitive desktop software lets you to easily manage your sites and retrieve the required results in a convenient and fast way. More than 30 different output formats offer maximum flexibility.

More than a simple data provider

Meteonorm includes two of the best minute models on the market for reliable simulations of large PV plants or energy management & battery systems. It can model urban heat effects to support the development of green cities. It contains algorithms to calculate extreme years, for example to test design limits. You can even simulate Climate Change using IPCC scenarios.

Long experience

The first version of Meteonorm was published as paperback handbook in 1985. Ten years later, Meteotest transferred the handbook to a desktop software. In 1998, the coverage of the climate data was extended from Switzerland to the whole world. The global breakthrough was reached with version 6 – back in 2007.

Today Meteonorm has more than 2 000 active users and is included in almost every PV, solar thermal or building simulation software on the market.

Platform independent

Meteonorm is not only a desktop software: For digital applications, our web service API and our Dynamic Link Library DLL ensure platform independent access to all data and models of Meteonorm, from everywhere. This allows the intergration of Meteonorm data in web applications, simulation software, building design software or building information modelling applications.

Global standard

All this makes Meteonorm a global standard and a powerful tool for solar energy applications, building design, heating & cooling systems, education, agriculture, forestry and many more.

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