Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] weather data

["Michael J. Witte" <mjwitte@xxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps an example would help.  I have loaded an example of a 10-minute weather 
file into the files are of the yahoo group.

Mike

  File        : /Examples/Weather 10-Minute Data.zip 
  Uploaded by : mjwitte <mjwitte@xxxxxxxx> 
  Description : Example of EnergyPlus weather data file with subhourly data. 
EPW and CSV formats included in zip file. 

You can access the file at the URL:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EnergyPlus_Support/files/Examples/Weather%2 010-
Minute%20Data.zip  



On 18 Mar 2006 at 14:28, eric_zhou1223 wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> How can I define the detailed weather data? E.g. I have measured 
> several records within each hour,say, interval of 10min. The 
> documentation read:
> 
> A weather file may contain several ¡°data periods¡± though ... In 
> addition, a weather file may contain multiple records per hour BUT
> these must match the Number of Time Steps In Hour for the 
> simulation. Multiple interval data
> files can be valued when you want to be sure of the weather values 
> for each time step (rather
> than relying on ¡°interpolated¡± weather data)...
> 
> and:
> 
> DATA PERIODS,
> N1, \field Number of Data Periods
> N2, \field Number of Records per hour
> 
> also in the CTYW file:
> 
> Number of Data Periods [DP] 1
> Number of Intervals per Hour 1
> 
> The question is, how  could I get a CSV with detailed data points in 
> each hour using the convertor, in order to custom my file?
> 
> 
> 2. What may be the difference between "opaque sky cover" and "total 
> sky cover" ? The doc does not explain.
> 
> Thank you in advance 
> 
> Eric
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Michael J. Witte, GARD Analytics, Inc.
EnergyPlus Testing and Support      
EnergyPlus-Support@xxxxxxxx





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