[Equest-users] Ground temperatures

[Joe Huang]

Correction to previous e-mail, meant to say

"By the way, I think that DOE-2 should do some smoothing or interpolation of the monthly 
ground temperatures; right now if you look at ..."

Joe

Joe Huang
White Box Technologies, Inc.
346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
Moraga CA 94556
yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com for simulation-ready weather data
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On 10/24/2013 12:15 PM, Joe Huang wrote:
> In my opinion, the easiest way to get the ground temperatures would not be through DOE-2 
> Hourly Reports, although I'm sure that can be done, but by reading them from the weather 
> file using the WTHFMT2 utility program that converts the file from binary to text.  
> There are just 12 numbers for monthly ground temperatures, shown on line 2 of the *.FMT 
> files.  By the way, I think that DOE-2 does some smoothing or interpolation of the 
> monthly ground temperatures; right now if you look at the hourly heat transfer through 
> Underground walls or floors, you'll see a wierd staircase effect with the same load for 
> a whole month, and then a jump to a different load the next month, etc.
>
> Joe
> Joe Huang
> White Box Technologies, Inc.
> 346 Rheem Blvd., Suite 108D
> Moraga CA 94556
> yjhuang at whiteboxtechnologies.com
> http://weather.whiteboxtechnologies.com  for simulation-ready weather data
> (o) (925)388-0265
> (c) (510)928-2683
> "building energy simulations at your fingertips"
>
> On 10/24/2013 11:05 AM, Simge Andolsun wrote:
>> Dear eQuest Users,
>> Would you please let me know which report would give me the deep ground temperatures 
>> used in ground heat transfer calculations of eQuest? I used to select an hourly report 
>> variable to make DOE-2.1e report these values, but I am not sure how to get these 
>> values from eQuest. Would you help me with this?
>> Thank you very much in advance for your help,
>> Best Regards,
>> Simge Andolsun, PhD.
>>
>>
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