<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> <title></title> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> Hi Y'all,<br> <br> again, thanks for the fast response. Good to know what's going on with the longitude here. So, I guess I can move on to geometry now. Later.<br> <br> Regards,<br> <br> Matt Koch, Ph.D., P.E.<br> Science & Technology Consultants (SciTeX)<br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.scitex.us">www.scitex.us</a><br> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mattkoch@scitex.us">mattkoch@scitex.us</a><br> (830)-446-1839<br> <br> <br> Ferguson, Alex wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:D7DF89D88828894797A82B041984F1BE0AF3D1CB@s0-ott-x1.nrn.nrcan.gc.ca" type="cite"> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; "> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.5726" name="GENERATOR"> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"><font color="#0000ff">Hi Matt,</font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"><font color="#0000ff">ESP-r uses an unusual convention when expressing longitude; it measuers it east or west from the nearerst 15-degree meridian (that is,. 15W, 30W, or in your case, 90 W). </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"><font color="#0000ff">- Alex </font></span></div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"></span> </div> <div dir="ltr" align="left"><span class="434574113-10022009"> <p align="left"><b><span lang="en-us"><font face="Times New Roman">Alex Ferguson</font></span></b><span lang="en-us"><br> <font face="Times New Roman">Sustainable Buildings and Communities (Housing Group)<br> CanmetENERGY<br> Natural Resources Canada<br> P:+1 613 995 3294<br> F:+1 613 996 9909<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" href="mailto:Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca">Alex.Ferguson@NRCan-RNCan.gc.ca</a><br> </font></span></p> </span></div> <br> <div class="OutlookMessageHeader" dir="ltr" align="left" lang="en-us"> <hr tabindex="-1"><font face="Tahoma" size="2"><b>From:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk">mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Matt Koch<br> <b>Sent:</b> February 9, 2009 23:49<br> <b>To:</b> <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a><br> <b>Cc:</b> Jon Hand (clcv10)<br> <b>Subject:</b> [esp-r] Re: Fwd: Re: ... climate files ...<br> </font><br> </div> Hi Everybody,<br> <br> thanks for the fast and comprehensive help! I found the TMY3 files, too, and they convert (except for the EOF "annoyance", but I guess that is no longer an issue). However, for example the San Antonio International Airport TMY3 EPW file has the proper longitude of -98.47 (- for W, I presume) in it, but after the clm epw2bin conversion in ESP-r, it is shown as 8.5 W, i.e. something like 90 - 98.47 rounded up. If I count from Greenwich, it should clearly be 98.47 W. What am I missing?<br> <br> Thanks and Regards,<br> <br> Matt Koch, Ph.D., P.E.<br> Science & Technology Consultants (SciTeX)<br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.scitex.us">www.scitex.us</a><br> <a moz-do-not-send="true" class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:mattkoch@scitex.us">mattkoch@scitex.us</a><br> (830)-446-1839<br> <br> <br> <br> Jon Hand (clcv10) wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:E52DBEBE-A242-4490-BFEF-19BF542D762D@esru.strath.ac.uk" type="cite"> <div><br> </div> Acording to Dru Crawley the EPW files are TMY3.  -Jon Hand<br> <div><br> <div>Begin forwarded message:</div> <br class="Apple-interchange-newline"> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>From: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="4">"Crawley, Drury" <<a href="mailto:Drury.Crawley@ee.doe.gov" moz-do-not-send="true">Drury.Crawley@ee.doe.gov</a>></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>Date: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="4">9 February 2009 13:13:19 GMT</font></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>To: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="4">Jon Hand <<a href="mailto:jon@esru.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">jon@esru.strath.ac.uk</a>></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" color="#000000" face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>Subject: </b></font><font style="font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 14px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal;" face="Helvetica" size="4"><b>RE: [esp-r] Re: ... climate files ...</b></font></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Jon,</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">The TMY3 files are in EPW format on our web site.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>We left the TMY2</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">files since many people were still using them.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Dru</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">-----Original Message-----</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">From: <a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px;">[<a href="mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">mailto:esp-r-bounces@lists.strath.ac.uk</a>] On Behalf Of Jon Hand</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 4:40 AM</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">To: <a href="mailto:mattkoch@scitex.us" moz-do-not-send="true">mattkoch@scitex.us</a>; <a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Subject: [esp-r] Re: ... climate files ...</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">A number of questions about climate files....</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::been looking into ESP-r for a number of years, decided to give it a</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">real ::try now. First hurdle is climate file conversion. Found a bunch</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">of EPW ::files for EnergyPlus, trying to convert them to ESP-r binary</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">using the ::following command:</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::clm -mode text -file USA_TX_San.Antonio_TMY2 -act epw2bin silent</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::USA_TX_San.Antonio_TMY2.epw</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::The file USA_TX_San.Antonio_TMY2 does get created, and I seem to be</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">able ::to use it in esp-r - for example, I can display the dry bulb</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">temperature ::and relative humidity in a graph. However, I am worried</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">the "EOF" error ::in the above output somehow indicates a<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>corrupted</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">file ::USA_TX_San.Antonio_TMY2, possibly leading to wrong results. Any</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">clue ::what that error is all about (I get this no matter whether LF or</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">CRLF ::terminate the lines in the EPW file)?</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">If you can graph the data the read was sucessful.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>The EOF is literally</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">that the scanning got to the end of the file it was importing.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::Secondly, the above EPW file has rather old data, and the longitude in</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::it appears to be wrong. So, I found a bunch of newer TWY3 files, but</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::they are in CSV format (722530TY.csv for San Antonio). However, I do</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">not ::know how to turn a CSVfile into something usable by ESP-r. Any</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">ideas?</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">We have not yet tried to scan the TWY3 files.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>But the Department of</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Energy did recently update a number of their EPW files with newer</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">sources so it could be that the San Antonio file was not the newest one</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">available.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>It should not be rocket-science to scan the TWY3 file, but</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">it will take writing some code to do the conversion and some testing</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">that the data read is correct.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>Perhaps someone in the ESP-r community</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">will take this on as a project.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::Thirdly, is there any reference manual that documents the command line</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::options of the various modules, such as the ones above for clm? It was</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">::by pure chance that I happened across the above command.</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">Start any tool with the command option -help.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>E.g.<span class="Apple-converted-space">  </span>clm -help</div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">_______________________________________________</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">esp-r mailing list</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px;">_______________________________________________</div> <div style="margin: 0px;">esp-r mailing list</div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk" moz-do-not-send="true">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px;"><a href="http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r" moz-do-not-send="true">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</a></div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> <div style="margin: 0px; min-height: 14px;"><br> </div> </div> <br> </blockquote> <br> <pre wrap=""> <hr size="4" width="90%"> _______________________________________________ esp-r mailing list <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk">esp-r@lists.strath.ac.uk</a> <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r">http://lists.strath.ac.uk/mailman/listinfo/esp-r</a></pre> </blockquote> <br> </body> </html>