Weather Data for EPA SWMM5 1

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Experienced SWMM users, please help.

The User's Manual for EPA SWMM5 says that rainfall and other weather data is available on line from

http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov

in a file format called " DSI 3240". I have tried for three days now to find and download such data but with no luck at all. The ncdc site is very cluttered and difficult to navigate. It seems to run around in circles and dump you back where you began. It does not appear to provide a preview of the type if data that is available. Nor, does it provide clear instructions for downloading the data, if you can find it, or for how to pay for the data.

Add to these problems the fact that the site for which I need the data may be as much as 30 miles from the nearest airport/weather station. I need both short term ( i.e. storm data)and long term data for continuous simulation using EPA SWMM5.

Anyone who has experienced these problems and found a way around them is asked ( begged !) to offer advice, suggestions or alternatives.

 

[tsgrue]

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More links to weather data for use with SWMM5 and other hydrologic simulation modeling software (that I forgot to post previously) - mostly free for download:

http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/weatherdata_sources.html

http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weatherdata/weather_request.cfm

http://www.eere.energy.gov/buildings/energyplus/cfm/weather_data.cfm

http://gundog.lbl.gov/dirsoft/d2weather.html

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