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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Happy holidays to everyone on the board!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I’m in the process of converting actual weather data for an M&V model calibration…In order to get the doe2 weather utility TXT2BIN to work, I know you first create the custom .FMT file from a .CSV file…when I look at a standard .FMT file created from a standard .BIN file, lines 4-8764 are pretty self-explanatory as those are the 17 columns of data that a .BIN file requires for each hour of the year…my question is, what are the numbers found in lines 1-3 of the .FMT file?? Here’s an example for the Chicago, IL .BIN converted to .FMT...<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Lines 1-3 of .FMT:<o:p></o:p></p><table class=MsoNormalTable border=0 cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 width=443 style='width:332.3pt;margin-left:-.75pt;border-collapse:collapse'><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=443 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:332.3pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>Chicago IL TMY2 1968 41.78 87.75 6 5<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=443 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:332.3pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr><tr style='height:15.0pt'><td width=443 nowrap valign=bottom style='width:332.3pt;padding:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt;height:15.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'> 500.0 496.2 495.9 497.7 505.1 512.4 518.8 522.8 523.2 519.9 513.7 506.6<o:p></o:p></span></p></td></tr></table><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Line 1 numbers 41.78 and 87.75 are lat/lon, but what is the significance of 6 & 5?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Line 2 doesn’t matter as it’s all 1.00 values.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Line 3…I got nothing…anyone?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I ask only because I’m curious if these numbers mean anything and if I can just copy these 3 default lines for the Chicago weather file into my custom .FMT file?<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Any insight would be great…thanks!<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br><b>Josh Greenfield</b>, </span><span style='font-size:7.5pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'><a href="http://www.idfpr.com/dpr/WHO/pe.asp"><span style='color:black'>PE</span></a>, <a href="http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/bldgs/supp_info/chicago_energy_conservationcodeoverview.html"><span style='color:black'>REP</span></a>, <a href="http://www.gbci.org/main-nav/professional-credentials/credentials.aspx"><span style='color:black'>LEED AP BD+C</span></a>, <a href="http://www.ashrae.org/certification/page/2491"><span style='color:black'>BEMP</span></a></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><br>Energy Services Manager<br>Associate Vice President<br>312.242.6392 Direct<br>jgreenfield@primerachicago.com<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><img border=0 width=144 height=29 id="Picture_x0020_2" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CCC6E2.D42ED7D0" alt="Description: Logo-CMYK-Resume"><br><br></span><i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial Narrow","sans-serif";color:#4F6228'><o:p></o:p></span></i></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div>
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