Weather Converter Program¶
The Weather Converter program is stored in the EnergyPlus folder area under "PreProcess" and subsequently in the "WeatherConverter" folder.
To perform annual/run period simulations in EnergyPlus, one needs weather data. Most weather data is still issued in an hour by hour (hourly) format though as you will see, EnergyPlus and its weather converter can accept data that has a finer resolution on the data (such as every 10 or 15 minutes).
The special weather format (EPW) used in EnergyPlus is a simple, ascii format as is common in the rest of the inputs for EnergyPlus.
Contents¶
- Background
- Weather Format for Simulation Programs
- Weather Data Availability
- Using the Weather Converter
- Definitions File & Custom File Processing
- Reports/Files Produced by the Weather Converter
- Köppen Climate Classification
- ASHRAE Climate Classification
- EnergyPlus Weather File (EPW) Data Dictionary
- EPW CSV Format (In/Out)
- Missing Weather File Data
- Source Weather Data Formats
- Data Sources/Uncertainty
- Advanced use - accessing weather conversion capabilities
- References
- Web Resources