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Title: The Multi-scenario Extreme Weather Simulator: Energy Resilience for Mission Assurance

Technical Report ·
DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/1885888· OSTI ID:1885888
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  1. Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Albuquerque, NM, and Livermore, CA (United States)
  2. National Renewable Energy Lab. (NREL), Golden, CO (United States)
  3. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

The Multi-scenario extreme weather simulator (MEWS) is a stochastic weather generation tool. The MEWS algorithm uses 50 or more years of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) daily summaries [1] for maximum and minimum temperature and NOAA climate norms [2] to calculate historical heat wave and cold snap statistics. The algorithm takes these statistics and shifts them according to multiplication factors provided in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) physical basis technical summary [3] for heat waves.

Research Organization:
Sandia National Lab. (SNL-NM), Albuquerque, NM (United States)
Sponsoring Organization:
USDOE Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response (CESER), Infrastructure Security and Energy Restoration (ISER)
DOE Contract Number:
NA0003525
OSTI ID:
1885888
Report Number(s):
SAND2022-11904R; 709548
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English