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

[Joe Huang]

Jim,

No worries.  You can be like the football fan who misses a game and watches it on tape 
delay, i.e., you can still look at the file next week but just resist reading my answer  
until afterwards.

Also, there will be a follow-on contest on the epw format that might be more up your 
alley.  I haven't decided yet whether to post that on Friday or next Monday.

Joe

Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 205A
Moraga CA 94556
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data
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On 12/6/2017 12:45 PM, Jim Dirkes via Bldg-sim wrote:
> 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 
> <mailto:YJHuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com> [EnergyPlus_Support] 
> <EnergyPlus_Support at yahoogroups.com <mailto: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 94556
>     yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com <mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
>     http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com <http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com>  for simulation-ready weather data
>     (o)(925)388-0265 <tel:%28925%29%20388-0265>
>     (c)(510)928-2683 <tel:%28510%29%20928-2683>
>     "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>
>     On 12/6/2017 6:46 AM, Julien Marrec julien.marrec at gmail.com
>     <mailto: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 :)
>>
>>     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
>>
>>     --
>>     Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA
>>     Owner at EffiBEM <http://www.effibem.com>
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>>
>>     LinkedIn (en <https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec>)/| /(fr
>>     <https://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec/fr>) :
>>
>>     2017-12-06 7:51 GMT+01:00 Joe Huang via Bldg-sim <bldg-sim at lists.onebuilding.org
>>     <mailto: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 <mailto:yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com>
>>         http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com
>>         <http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com> for simulation-ready weather data
>>         (o) (925)388-0265 <tel:%28925%29%20388-0265>
>>         (c) (510)928-2683 <tel:%28510%29%20928-2683>
>>         "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>>
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