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Weather Processor Step

Goal

  • Retrieves weather data for the location of the model.
  • Creates synthetic hourly values from monthly means.

Technical information
Class WeatherProcessorStep
Superclass WorkflowStepWithSimStadtGraphics
Author
Maintainer
Source location simstadt/src/main/java/eu/simstadt/workflowsteps/WeatherProcessorStep.java
Package eu.simstadt.workflowsteps
Project simstadt

Dependencies

Parameters

Weather data source (weatherDataSource)

Available weather data sources:

  • Monthly global horizontal irradiance and ambient temperature from PVGIS online database (https://re.jrc.ec.europa.eu/pvg_tools/en/tools.html)

  • Monthly global horizontal irradiance and ambient temperature from INSEL offline database

  • Hourly global horizontal irradiance and ambient temperature from local TMY3 file

  • Monthly global horizontal irradiance and ambient temperature from local TMY3 file

  • Type : WeatherDataSourceType
  • Default : PVGIS_DATABASE
  • Possible values : PVGIS_DATABASE, INSEL_DATABASE, TMY3_HOURLY_FILE, TMY3_MONTHLY_FILE
  • Getter : getWeatherDataSource()
  • Setter : setWeatherDataSource(WeatherDataSourceType)

TMY3 filename (inputFilename)

Meteonorm TMY3 filename, with either hourly or monthly values.

The corresponding file should be present somewhere in :

  • the repository folder

  • the project folder

  • or the workflowstep folder.

  • Type : String
  • Default : Stuttgart-hour.tmy3
  • Getter : getInputFilename()
  • Setter : setInputFilename(String)

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