Hi Jiao,<br><br>If you go into auxiliary programs in the documentation folder in your EnergyPlus install, on page 15/16 there is a discription of all the variables in the weather file.<br><br>Gearoid.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 6:12 AM, CleanTech Analytics <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jeremiah@cleantechanalytics.com">jeremiah@cleantechanalytics.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">Jiao, </font></font><div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif">I can not at the moment locate the header I had created for this process, but have figured out the answer in the past. I had inconsistent wind data, so created my own weather files using the process below. I seem to remember finding the process of saving as text, then saving as csv cleared things up a bit.. Hope this is sorta useful, and I will try to search an old computer for the excel file that I made..</font></font></div>
<div><font color="#336666"><font face="verdana,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><b style="font-family:'Times New Roman';font-size:medium"><span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Custom EPW</span><br>
<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"></span><ol style="margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Download closest EPW file</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Run and export INMBY</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Use weather file converter change EPW to CSV</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open CSV in Notepad ++</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Remove header</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save as text file</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open in excel as comma delimited </span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Cut wind column, and place into custom excel sheet for editing this file type</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Change all hours of the year by month to INMBY extrapolated data that have monthly averages over cut in speed.</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Export as CSV that says </span><span style="font-style:italic;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">name</span><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">EPW.CSV</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open EPW.CSV with notepad++</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Replace header with custom header</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save as EPW.CSV</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open in weather converter, convert to EPW</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open new EPW file in weather file converter and generate stat file</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Save .STAT file, and .EPW file with same name, and place in same folder</span></li>
<li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open weather file in EP launch</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Open IDF design conditions file in IDF editor, replace data in Windspire.IDF with design conditions from Weather file converter GENERATED idf</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Edit IDF in text editor, to reflect the location</span></li><li style="list-style-type:decimal;font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;font-weight:normal;vertical-align:baseline">
<span style="vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Run simulation.</span></li></ol></b><div style="text-align:left"><font color="#999999" face="verdana, sans-serif"><i>Jeremiah D. Crossett</i></font></div><div style="text-align:left">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div class="h5">On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Jiao, Joey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:Joey.Jiao@wspgroup.com.cn" target="_blank">Joey.Jiao@wspgroup.com.cn</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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<div link="blue" vlink="purple" lang="EN-US"><div><p class="MsoNormal">Hi, everyone:<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Below is an illustration of a EPW weather file, I’m trying very hard to find out the description of each row. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The main information I searched is :<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u><span>1.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>The wind speed reference height. <u></u><u></u></p>
<p><u></u><span>2.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>Every rows’ meaning.<u></u><u></u></p><p><u></u><span>3.<span style="font:7.0pt "Times New Roman""> </span></span><u></u>Other numbers’ meaning.<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Someone told me that Energy Plus ‘s help files should include theses information , I real find some climate information , but no detail enough.<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Could anyone take some light on this ?<u></u><u></u></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Any suggestion should be appreciated. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Thank you very much. <u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">Joey<u></u><u></u></p>
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