Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] A question about using real-time weather data to do a simulation

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I believe the real time weather site includes "global
horizontal" solar.  If you put that through the EnergyPlus
Weather Converter it will use an algorithm to split the global into
direct and diffuse that EnergyPlus needs.

At 08:04 PM 9/25/2011, Ke Xu wrote:
> Hello,everyone,
>
> To my understanding, the real-time weather file only includes outside air
> dry bulb temp, dew point temp, wind direction and speed, etc., but there
> is no solar radiation information. My question is, without the solar
> radiation information, how does E+ calculate the hourly cooling load and
> if it is necessary to incorporate the solar radiation data, is there any
> public resources that I can reach? and how can I incorporate that into
> EPW file?

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