[Equest-users] eQUEST: .FMT to .BIN weather conversion

[Josh Greenfield]

Happy holidays to everyone on the board!

 

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...

 

Lines 1-3 of .FMT:

Chicago      IL TMY2 1968   41.78   87.75    6    5

  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00  1.00

500.0 496.2 495.9 497.7 505.1 512.4 518.8 522.8 523.2 519.9 513.7 506.6

 

Line 1 numbers 41.78 and 87.75 are lat/lon, but what is the significance
of 6 & 5?

Line 2 doesn't matter as it's all 1.00 values.

Line 3...I got nothing...anyone?

 

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?

 

Any insight would be great...thanks!

 


Josh Greenfield, PE <http://www.idfpr.com/dpr/WHO/pe.asp> , REP
<http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/bldgs/supp_info/chicago_ener
gy_conservationcodeoverview.html> , LEED AP BD+C
<http://www.gbci.org/main-nav/professional-credentials/credentials.aspx>
, BEMP <http://www.ashrae.org/certification/page/2491> 
Energy Services Manager
Associate Vice President
312.242.6392 Direct
jgreenfield at primerachicago.com

 



 


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