Climate files for extreme events

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Browne Dan
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Climate files for extreme events

Post by Browne Dan »

Could anyone please suggest which type of climate file to use for extreme events such as driving rain, .WET, .DAT, .WAC, .IWC? I have been using .TRY files.

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Dan
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Post by veitner »

Dear Dan,

the most flexible format is .WAC - the only drawback is the requirement of 8760 lines of data.
The installation of WUFI includes an Excel-Spreadsheet to convert your data to that format (inside the tools directory, a subfolder of the installation directory).

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Post by Christian Bludau »

Hello Dan,
the WAC-format doesn´t need 8760 lines of data. If you want to start later the year, just fill the first column with zeros up to the date with the first values. Fill in as much values as you like.
The only thing to keep in mind doing this is to start the calculation at the time the WAC-File starts and end it at the last hour in the wac file. Else you will get an error in the calculation. If you don´t use a completely filled wac file, you cant calculate for several years.
Greetings Christian
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