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Building for the Future Weather Files

Name: Building for the Future Weather Files
Published: 2026

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Rauniyar, Surendra ; Hoffmann, David ; Dalla Pozza, Ramona ; Jakob, Doerte

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Individuals using the data must read and follow the guidance provided at https://nesp2climate.com.au/resource/building-for-the-future-guidance-note-for-the-prototype-files/

The data is provided 'as is' and any use is solely at the user's risk. To the maximum extent permitted by law, no representation or warranty of any kind is given, whether express, implied, statutory or otherwise, regarding:  
* the accuracy, currency, completeness, quality, or reliability of the data, or its fitness for any particular purpose; or  
* the non-infringement of any third-party intellectual property rights arising out of any particular use or access of the data.   

These datasets have been produced as part of a research and development activity and must not be used to inform building design, regulatory compliance, or energy efficiency assessments. The files should not be interpreted as approved regulatory NatHERS weather files unless they are subsequently subjected to the required technical review, building-simulation testing, governance and formal approval processes.

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This record was harvested by RDA at 2026-11-12T11:58:18.116348+11:00 from NCI's Data Catalogue where it was last modified at 2026-08-14.

Full description

This dataset contains hourly Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) and eXtreme Meteorological Year (XMY) weather files in NatHERS-compatible format for residential building energy simulations, developed from historical observations and seven regional downscaled climate projections. Future files are available for 11 representative Australian locations—Darwin, Cairns, Brisbane, Longreach, Perth, Adelaide, Mildura, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Hobart—under two emissions scenarios (low: SSP1-2.6 and high: SSP3-7.0) and for three future periods: the 2030s, 2050s, and 2070s. TMY files represent typical climatic conditions by combining the most representative calendar months selected from different years within each analysis period. XMY files retain whole-year weather conditions but are selected to include three complementary types of heatwaves: the most intense, most severe and longest-duration event within each historical or projected climate dataset. Together, these datasets support climate resilience testing, peak cooling-load analysis, and the assessment of building and infrastructure performance under current and future extreme heat conditions.

Credit

This project was jointly funded by The Bureau of Meteorology and the Australian Government under the National Environmental Science Program Climate Systems Hub.

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The project developed a dataset-agnostic methodology to create Typical Meteorological Year (TMY) and Extreme Meteorological Year (XMY) weather files for 11 Australian locations under multiple climate models, emissions scenarios and future periods (2030, 2050 and 2070). The data processing and scientific workflows are documented through project reports, conference papers, GitHub documentation and associated metadata records. Data quality are ensured using authoritative observational and climate projection datasets, application of a standardised weather-file generation methodology, and the use of multiple climate models to capture uncertainty. Quality assurance procedures included validation of input datasets, consistency checks across scenarios and future periods, verification of TMY and XMY weather files, testing of NatHERS-compatible outputs, and review through industry case studies and stakeholder engagement. All processing methods, assumptions and metadata are documented to support transparency, reproducibility and ongoing quality control. The methodology is fully described in this Research Report: Hoffmann, D., Rauniyar, S., Dalla Pozza, R. and Jakob, D. (2026) Developing a methodology for generating future weather files for building energy performance assessment. Bureau Research Report No. 131. Australian Bureau of Meteorology, Melbourne, Australia. https://nesp2climate.com.au/resource/building-for-the-future-technical-report/

Created: 14 08 2026

Issued: 11 11 2026

Modified: 12 11 2026