About Climate Information Data Model
This document provides the data model specifications for climate data
and was developed through a stakeholder consensus process by the
IBPSA-USA Building Data Exchange Committee. It is based on the standard
framework and vocabulary provided in the BSR/ASHRAE Standard 205P-Full
Public Review #3.
Some notes about this version and its expected evolution:
- The committee chose not to define an authoritative minimum viable
data model, thus allowing users of the data model (data providers and
consumers) to select the relevant variables and time periods according
to their applications.
- The data elements are intended to reflect the common use cases of
building thermal and daylight modeling. Other use cases may require a
different set of data elements for their purposes.
- Currently the data model only covers metadata fields, location, and
time series variables with regular and irregular time intervals. Future
versions are expected to include structures for statistically-derived
design conditions.
- This document does not separately consider how the data model should
be serialized or the file formats that should be used for
publication.