Hi all,
I'm trying to set up a script to dynamically edit a weather file. In general, I'll have a day's worth of real data and I want to paste that in to the correct day of the weather file. This would be simple with an EPW or other text file format, but I'm not even sure where to begin with a .bin format.
The only roundabout thought I have is to convert my current .bin file to an EPW, then edit that epw and convert it back to bin. This is possible though this will be happening a lot of times so I'd like it to be scriptable. Any thoughts, and if my idea works, are there any converter programs that can be run from the command line and not in the GUI like with equest converter program?
Thanks in advance
Ben
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This question is very similar to the one to which I responded on
Saturday on Weather Normalizing an eQuest model.
You might want to review that post for some observations about working
with DOE-2 packed weather files.
If you want to edit a DOE-2 *.bin weather file, you can use the DOE-2
weather packer (doewth.exe) that has an EDIT
option. doewth is an old style Fortran program that runs in batch mode.
You would need to turn your data into an input text file, but the file
must have the exact fixed field format as explained in the documentation
in the original DOE-2 Reference Manual Volume Two, circa 1982. I've
never used this feature in doewth, and it might be easier instead to
find and edit the original text weather file in a format recognized by
doewth, e.g., TMY2 fixed field, and then repack the file anew. Once
you're editing a weather file, it's highly recommended that the new data
contain all the weather parameters, especially the four most important
ones of temperature, humidity, wind speed, and solar radiation.
Joe
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