Happy holidays to everyone on the board!
I'm in the process of converting actual weather data for an M&V model
calibration...In order to get the doe2 weather utility TXT2BIN to work,
I know you first create the custom .FMT file from a .CSV file...when I
look at a standard .FMT file created from a standard .BIN file, lines
4-8764 are pretty self-explanatory as those are the 17 columns of data
that a .BIN file requires for each hour of the year...my question is,
what are the numbers found in lines 1-3 of the .FMT file?? Here's an
example for the Chicago, IL .BIN converted to .FMT...
Lines 1-3 of .FMT:
Chicago IL TMY2 1968 41.78 87.75 6 5
1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00 1.00
500.0 496.2 495.9 497.7 505.1 512.4 518.8 522.8 523.2 519.9 513.7 506.6
Line 1 numbers 41.78 and 87.75 are lat/lon, but what is the significance
of 6 & 5?
Line 2 doesn't matter as it's all 1.00 values.
Line 3...I got nothing...anyone?
I ask only because I'm curious if these numbers mean anything and if I
can just copy these 3 default lines for the Chicago weather file into my
custom .FMT file?
Any insight would be great...thanks!
Josh Greenfield, PE
