DOE-2 Reference Manual Version 2.1 - DOE2.com

DOE-2 Weather ProcessorThe weather data available from TRY (Test Reference Year), 1440, TMY(Typical Meteorological Year), WYEC (Weather Year for Energy Computation),CD144 or CTZ tapes are not useable by the DOE-2 program until they have beenpacked, i.e., compressed into a format readable by the DOE-2 program. It isthe purpose of the DOE-2 Weather Processor to accomplish this task. Inaddition to this task the Weather Processor is capable of fulfilling othertasks.1. It can read either a weather tape or a packed weather file andproduce an hour by hour listing of the data.2. It can read a packed file and replace user-selected variables, i.e.,it can edit a packed file.3. It can read a packed file and produce a yearly statistical summary.These four functions will be abbreviated here with the code-words:LIST, EDIT, and STAT.The input deck for the Weather Processor has the following form:job cardcontro 1cardsEnd-of-Record Carduser-supp 1 i eddata deckEnd-of-FileThe job card must be formatted according tobeing used and will not be described here.site dependent and will also vary accordingdesired by the user.PACK,the rules of the computer serviceThe control cards will also beto WhlCh of the above functions isBefore describing the user-supplied input deck, one other point must bestressed. Depending upon the computer system being used, the user must arrangefor the unpacked weather file to be placed in the system--either as a tape fileor in some other permanent file storage device. The user will have to supply,to the control cards, the file name and other parameters required by the computersystem to identify the unpacked weather file. Similarly, the output ofthe packing and editing functions must also be given a location for storage.Either a tape number and ownership or the disk file name must be supplied bythe user, to the control cards, so that (1) the program knows where to put theoutput and (2) the user can retrieve the packed data when running DOE-2.VII 1. 36 (Revi sed 5/81)