Re: [EnergyPlus_Support] Re: Changes to epw file

[Linda Lawrie <linda@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The weather converter automatically calculates several weeks
from the weather file which then can be accessed through the
SizingPeriod:WeatherFileConditionType object.

You can also, I believe search Design Week in the documentation though it
might not trigger on this object.

Another object - SizingPeriod:WeatherFileDays - can be used to have the
sizing period run on a specific set of days.

For your purposes, you could either use your regular weather file and
have the weather converter calculate them, or you could hand craft a
weather file and put in the Typical/Extreme header record the days you
want or you could hand craft a weather file and put in several "Data
Periods" which you then would select with a RunPeriod
object.

Hope this helps clarify things though it may give you more options than
you wanted.

Linda

At 09:32 AM 3/17/2012, joe Bater wrote:


> A related question regarding the
> design weeks...  Is there a definition document describing
> these?  
>
> I'm developing some climate change weather files, and am not sure how to
> implement design summer and winter weeks.  Obviously these are the
> hottest and coldest recorded weeks of the year, but are they:
> 1) simply strings of 7 days starting from 1 Jan... e.g. 00hrs 1 Jan until
> 23 hrs 7th Jan, followed by 00 hrs 8th Jan until...; or 
> 2) are they calendar weeks e.g. the strings of Monday through Sunday,
> which might not start on 1 Jan?
>
> Many thanks in advance for any answers...

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