<div dir="ltr"><div><div><div>Hi,<br><br></div>Clearly the problem is that it's too damn cold to put buildings there! At least buildings with people in them :) <br><br><img src="cid:ii_1602c473b40e507a" alt="Images intégrées 2" style="margin-right: 0px;"><br><br><br></div>It's the first time I realize that -40°C is -40°F.<br><br><br></div><div><div>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!<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div>Julien<br></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div>--<br>Julien Marrec, EBCP, BPI MFBA<br>Owner at <a href="http://www.effibem.com" target="_blank">EffiBEM</a><br>T: +33 6 95 14 42 13<br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">LinkedIn (<a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec" target="_blank">en</a>)<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"> <i>| </i></span>(<a href="https://fr.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec/fr" target="_blank">fr</a>) : </span><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="http://www.linkedin.com/in/julienmarrec" target="_blank"></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">2017-12-06 7:51 GMT+01:00 Joe Huang via Bldg-sim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org" target="_blank">bldg-sim@lists.onebuilding.org</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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Joe<br>
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Attachment: contest_AK_BARROW-W-POST-W-ROG<wbr>ERS-AP_700260_12.zip (212 KB)<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
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