[esp-r] Re: EPW climate/weather files and solar data timing

[Paul Strachan]

Christopher,

If you go into the model context menu, you can toggle between
hour-centred and half-hour centred. This  sets the appropriate period
for the solar data.

Regards
Paul

Christopher Heard wrote:
> I understand that EnergyPlus (EPW) weather data considers that solar data is 
> that over the past hour whereas ESP-r considers that the data is over the 
> hour ±30 minutes.
>
> Is this a correct understanding of the situation.
>
> For the sunrise and sunset hours this can lead to odd results.
>
> When the weather module imports an EPW file I imagine that it dosen't do the 
> interpolations to correct for the difference in solar timing.
>
> Yes I have read http://lists.strath.ac.uk/archives/esp-r/2012/002519.html 
> [esp-r] Re: How work with .WEA files in ESP-r?
>
> Christopher Heard
>
>
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