Documentation - Technical issues - Formats - .wws

Header information

An arbitrary number of header lines can be added at the top of the file. WindSim interprets particular keywords terminated with a colon in column 20. Some of the keywords are followed by mandatory input, others are optional.

The format version number does not follow the WindSim version number. The format version number is equal to the current WindSim version at the time when the format was last upgraded. Hence, a given format version m.n can be used together with WindSim version m.n and all post WindSim m.n versions.

Frequency distribution information

After the header information, follows the scaled frequency distribution grouped according to wind direction and speed. The distribution is scaled to unity, meaning that frequency distribution sums up to give 1. An arbitrary number of wind directions or sectors can be used. Sector 1 is centered around 0 °, and the following sectors are equally distributed. The speed intervals are given with both minimum and maximum limits, allowing an unequal distribution. There are maximum limits for the number of sectors and speed intervals, these limits might vary in different WindSim versions, in version 4.3 the maximum number of sectors is 24 and the maximum number of speed intervals is 50.

Example of the .wws format

                                                        ! comments not belonging to the format
version            : 43                                 ! mandatory; .wws format version
site name          : Demo .wws format                   ! optional;  site name
measurement period : 01.01.2002 - 31.12.2002            ! optional;  measurement period
site position      :       1000.0000       1000.0000    ! mandatory; co-ordinate position in east-west and north-south direction
coord. system      :           1                        ! mandatory; co-ordinate system: (1)local orthogonal or (3)global orthogonal
measurement height :        50.0                        ! mandatory; measurement height
number of sectors  :          12                        ! mandatory; number of wind directions (sectors)
number of bins     :          30                        ! mandatory; number of wind speed intervals (bins)
total records      :           0                        ! optional;  number of measurement samples (records)

                              1        2        3        4        5        6        7        8        9       10       11       12
                       0.035500 0.049700 0.037400 0.040400 0.067000 0.147400 0.177700 0.126700 0.093200 0.093100 0.073800 0.058100
   1   0.000 -  1.000  0.001136 0.001094 0.001220 0.000623 0.001126 0.000793 0.001263 0.000922 0.001071 0.000901 0.001392 0.001221
   2   1.000 -  2.000  0.003599 0.003367 0.002103 0.002094 0.001859 0.002947 0.004302 0.003407 0.003768 0.003152 0.004409 0.004420
   3   2.000 -  3.000  0.006418 0.005461 0.003031 0.002671 0.002511 0.006322 0.007357 0.006323 0.005584 0.004082 0.006726 0.008166
   4   3.000 -  4.000  0.006407 0.006680 0.003714 0.003098 0.002768 0.008414 0.009363 0.007551 0.005412 0.007308 0.006950 0.008156
   5   4.000 -  5.000  0.005073 0.006039 0.003970 0.003804 0.002714 0.009215 0.010388 0.009282 0.006523 0.006079 0.007570 0.007078
   6   5.000 -  6.000  0.004015 0.004264 0.004877 0.004252 0.002939 0.009610 0.011936 0.009196 0.006586 0.007544 0.009587 0.005808
   7   6.000 -  7.000  0.002296 0.004703 0.004386 0.003579 0.003868 0.008788 0.014189 0.010339 0.008050 0.008633 0.007740 0.004558
   8   7.000 -  8.000  0.002050 0.004264 0.003447 0.003643 0.004242 0.010881 0.016227 0.011108 0.007985 0.008932 0.005894 0.003139
   9   8.000 -  9.000  0.000982 0.003933 0.003095 0.003131 0.004317 0.010240 0.015780 0.012122 0.008978 0.009007 0.005691 0.002359
  10   9.000 - 10.000  0.000726 0.003591 0.002391 0.002810 0.004669 0.011799 0.015993 0.010755 0.007835 0.007747 0.004954 0.002039
  11  10.000 - 11.000  0.000214 0.002725 0.001654 0.002489 0.005215 0.012760 0.015620 0.009058 0.006758 0.004829 0.003203 0.002498
  12  11.000 - 12.000  0.000448 0.001614 0.000950 0.002073 0.005193 0.012109 0.012801 0.007498 0.005584 0.004648 0.002947 0.001857
  13  12.000 - 13.000  0.000502 0.001293 0.000875 0.001838 0.004904 0.010785 0.010879 0.007252 0.004590 0.003761 0.001751 0.001815
  14  13.000 - 14.000  0.000587 0.000524 0.000683 0.002190 0.005396 0.008371 0.008242 0.006398 0.004825 0.003473 0.001410 0.001335
  15  14.000 - 15.000  0.000320 0.000043 0.000214 0.000930 0.004926 0.006300 0.006790 0.004486 0.003320 0.003120 0.001281 0.001356
  16  15.000 - 16.000  0.000149 0.000043 0.000214 0.000609 0.003601 0.005606 0.004741 0.003599 0.002392 0.002981 0.000897 0.000833
  17  16.000 - 17.000  0.000406 0.000043 0.000214 0.000449 0.002960 0.003417 0.003364 0.002746 0.001644 0.002009 0.000929 0.000630
  18  17.000 - 18.000  0.000128 0.000021 0.000235 0.000064 0.001838 0.002904 0.003074 0.001859 0.001249 0.001838 0.000342 0.000512
  19  18.000 - 19.000  0.000043 0.000000 0.000021 0.000032 0.001122 0.002028 0.002029 0.001025 0.000555 0.001154 0.000128 0.000235
  20  19.000 - 20.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000085 0.000021 0.000363 0.001389 0.001111 0.000576 0.000235 0.000769 0.000000 0.000064
  21  20.000 - 21.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000021 0.000000 0.000257 0.001293 0.000716 0.000513 0.000149 0.000492 0.000000 0.000021
  22  21.000 - 22.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000128 0.000619 0.000256 0.000321 0.000107 0.000353 0.000000 0.000000
  23  22.000 - 23.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000043 0.000458 0.000405 0.000106 0.000000 0.000203 0.000000 0.000000
  24  23.000 - 24.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000021 0.000289 0.000320 0.000085 0.000000 0.000064 0.000000 0.000000
  25  24.000 - 25.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000043 0.000331 0.000065 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  26  25.000 - 26.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000021 0.000021 0.000160 0.000065 0.000000 0.000021 0.000000 0.000000
  27  26.000 - 27.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000064 0.000043 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  28  27.000 - 28.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  29  28.000 - 29.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000
  30  29.000 - 30.000  0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000