[esp-r] Re: problem with EPW conversion

[glbrune at polimi.it]

Thank you very much.

I am about to send you the files.

Regards

Gian Luca


Def. Quota Jon Hand <jon at esru.strath.ac.uk>:

> 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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> [esp-r-bounces at lists.strath.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Gian Luca Brunetti  
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> Sent: 10 February 2011 18:33
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> 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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