[esp-r] Re: problem with EPW conversion

[Jon Hand]

There were changes to the format of several fields of the EPW file which
were detected last year and the current version of ESP-r has been used
on many platforms to read in more recent EPW files.  

Typically no editing is needed of the EPW file prior to import via
the clm module with one provision - if you are working on Linux or OSX
then you need to convert the DOS line endings in the EPW file to
the Unix form prior to use.

Older versions of ESP-r will fail when reading the new EPW files.

There is a possibility that further (unknown to us) changes have been made in
the EPW file format which is causing problems. I suggest passing me one of 
the problem files so I can have a look.

In another climate related issue - some people have reported problems
with ESP-r climate files sourced via Meteornom.  As far as I can tell
the work-around is to export to EPW and then convert to ESP-r format.

-Jon Hand
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From: esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Gian Luca Brunetti [gianluca.brunetti at polimi.it]
Sent: 10 February 2011 18:33
To: esp-r at lists.strath.ac.uk
Subject: [esp-r]  problem with EPW conversion

Dear ESP-r users,
I am looking for advice for the conversion of some EPW climate files.

I am not succeeding in importing some of them which some time ago I had
no trouble to convert.

Damascus, for example. (With Casablanca, and Algiers, and others).

I have tried the instructions at the link
https://espr.svn.cvsdude.com/esp-r/trunk/src/climate/README_IWEC with
the Linux, Cygwin and Windows ESP-r versions.  Also, I verified that I
am still able to convert an old Damascus EPW file I saved some times ago.

There must be something chanced in the format of the EPW files, but I
can't really figure out what is the cause of the problem.

Thank you in advance.

Regards

Gian Luca Brunetti


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