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== Section: NOAA == | == Section: NOAA == | ||
All these can be set in the NOAA Setup Screen in Configuration menu. You might select to close Cumulus, and edit the ' | All these can be set in the NOAA Setup Screen in Configuration menu. You might select to close Cumulus, and edit the 'NOAATempNorm[Jan-Dec]' and 'NOAARainNorm[Jan-Dec]' parameters by using a external editor to manipulate into required format, copy, and paste, the values from another source (as there are a lot of figures to type in). | ||
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|HeatingThreshold=65 | |HeatingThreshold=65 | ||
|The temperature which is to be used to calculate [[Heat/cold degree days and Chill hours | heating degree days]]. The default is 65 degrees Fahrenheit | |The base temperature which is to be used to calculate heating demand as [[Heat/cold degree days and Chill hours | heating degree days]]. The default is 65 degrees if you use Fahrenheit scale or 18.3 degrees if you use Celsius. The value you type on the NOAA Setup Screen is entered in the units that you have selected for temperature. Degree days are calculated on a minute-by-minute basis and the totals for each day are stored in dayfile.txt. Changes to the threshold values cannot therefore apply retrospectively. But, if the dayfile.txt entry doesn't have the degree days in it, then it uses the day's average temperature to produce a 'simplified' heating or cooling degree days figure (but obviously never both at the same time) and in that case it does use the current threshold settings. | ||
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|CoolingThreshold=65 | |CoolingThreshold=65 | ||
|The temperature which is to be used to calculate [[Heat/cold degree days and Chill hours | cooling degree days]]. The default is 65 degrees Fahrenheit | |The base temperature which is to be used to calculate chilling demand as [[Heat/cold degree days and Chill hours | cooling degree days]]. The default is 65 degrees if you use Fahrenheit scale or 18.3 degrees if you use Celsius. The value you type on the NOAA Setup Screen is entered in the units that you have selected for temperature. Degree days are calculated on a minute-by-minute basis and the totals for each day are stored in dayfile.txt. Changes to the threshold values cannot therefore apply retrospectively. But, if the dayfile.txt entry doesn't have the degree days in it, then it uses the day's average temperature to produce a 'simplified' heating or cooling degree days figure (but obviously never both at the same time) and in that case it does use the current threshold settings. | ||
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|MaxTempComp1=27 | |MaxTempComp1=27 | ||
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|The FTP directory into which Cumulus will attempt to upload the latest NOAA-style reports. You must give the full path from the point of login, and do not supply a trailing 'slash'. Note that the directory must actually exist on the server. | |The FTP directory into which Cumulus will attempt to upload the latest NOAA-style reports. You must give the full path from the point of login, and do not supply a trailing 'slash'. Note that the directory must actually exist on the server. | ||
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|style="background:lightgray;"| | |style="background:lightgray;"| These 'climatic normal' values are set from the NOAA Setup dialog in Cumulus, but could be set up by processing information in a spreadsheet | ||
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|NOAATempNorm[Jan-Dec]= | |NOAATempNorm[Jan-Dec]= | ||