[Bldg-sim] [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Test your knowledge of simulation weather file formats Part 1: the DOE-2 *.BIN/*.BINM format

Jim Dirkes jim at buildingperformanceteam.com
Wed Dec 6 12:45:22 PST 2017


I have no time to look at the files this week, but I love the inquisitive,
educational, competitive and community aspect of this!

Thanks, Joe.

On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 3:41 PM, Joe Huang YJHuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
[EnergyPlus_Support] <EnergyPlus_Support at yahoogroups.com> wrote:

>
>
> Thanks to all the people who've responded via e-mail, which made me
> realize an embarrassing  flaw in how  I've structured the contest that I
> must correct immediately,
>
> i.e.,  to request that any respondents send their answers to me via
> e-mail, since posting them on the listservs would immediately short-circuit
> the contest!
>
> BTW,  of the e-mail answers I've received, all 3 of the differences have
> been pointed out, but not by any single person, while several have pointed
> out things that I wasn't aware!!
>
> Final answers will be posted on Thursday  morning.
>
> Joe
>
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
> Moraga CA 94556yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.comhttp://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data
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> On 12/6/2017 6:46 AM, Julien Marrec julien.marrec at gmail.com
> [EnergyPlus_Support] wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
> Clearly the problem is that it's too damn cold to put buildings there! At
> least buildings with people in them :)
>
> [image: Images intégrées 2]
>
>
> It's the first time I realize that -40°C is -40°F.
>
>
> Note: I replied to Joe off list, to not beat the point of his contest,
> this is just a lame joke: my apologies to the 4000 souls living in Barrow
> that are probably in a two-month-long night right now!
>
>
> Cheers,
> Julien
>
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> <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec/fr>) :
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> 2017-12-06 7:51 GMT+01:00 Joe Huang via Bldg-sim <
> bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org>:
>
>> This is the first of several posts regarding the nitty-gritty of
>> commonly-used weather file formats.  Just to add some excitement to this
>> rather dry topic, I thought I'd post them as little contests of your
>> familiarity with weather files or at least your visual acumen.
>>
>> The first weather file format I'm putting under the microscope is the
>> DOE-2 *.bin format.  Since the *.bin is a packed binary format, the files
>> are not readily observable, and consequently there's been more than a
>> little confusion in what they contain.
>>
>> I've attached a zip file that contains a weather file for Barrow Alaska
>> 2012 along with a DOE-2 hourly file listing the contents of this weather
>> file. See if you can detect  the three things in this hourly dump of the
>> weather data that's unusual or different. Hint: the hourly file was
>> produced with a slightly modified version of the DOE-2.1E program. If you
>> ran the weather file with the standard DOE-2.1E it will probably crash, and
>> even with DOE-2.2 you will not see all the differences.
>>
>> You can either post your answers on the mail server or send them to me
>> via e-mail. The first five persons to get the right answers will get a free
>> historical year weather file of your choice from the White Box Technologies
>> web site.  I will announce the results on Thursday, as well as explain what
>> these three differences indicate about the DOE-2 *.bin weather format.
>>
>> Joe
>>
>> Attachment: contest_AK_BARROW-W-POST-W-ROGERS-AP_700260_12.zip (212 KB)
>>
>> --
>> Joe Huang
>> White Box Technologies, Inc.
>> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
>> <https://maps.google.com/?q=346+Rheem+Blvd.,+Suite+205A+%0D+Moraga+CA+94556&entry=gmail&source=g>
>> Moraga CA 94556
>> yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
>> http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data
>> (o) (925)388-0265 <(925)%20388-0265>
>> (c) (510)928-2683 <(510)%20928-2683>
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