AmirAAliabadi
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2 years ago Dear All,
Thank you for considering VCWG and trying v1.3.2 and v1.4.5. Both versions are essentially the same with v1.4.5 including renewable energy options. Both versions are designed to run on Python 2.7. We currently do not have the resources to translate these versions from Python 2.7 to 3. So you may wish to try to translate them with your own effort. Please note that the publications pertaining to these versions are available here:
Moradi, M., Dyer, B., Nazem, A., Nambiar, M. K., Nahian, M. R., Bueno, B., Mackey, C., Vasanthakumar, S., Nazarian, N., Krayenhoff, E. S., Norford, L. K., & Aliabadi, A. A. (2021), 'The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.3.2)', Geoscientific Model Development, 14(2), 961-984, doi:10.5194/gmd-14-961-2021.
Aliabadi, A. A., Moradi, M., McLeod, R. M., Calder, D., & Dernovsek, R. (2021), 'How Much Building Renewable Energy Is Enough? The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v1.4.4)', Atmosphere, 12(7), 882, doi:10.3390/atmos12070882.
The good news is that we have yet developed a new version of VCWG v2.0.0 which completely runs on Python 3. This is an improved model which 1) offers hydrological modelling, and 2) in addition to MOST, it offers the ability to be forced from the top of the urban domain using mesoscale data products (e.g. ERA-5 pressure levels). In fact, with this option the rural model can be bypassed in this version. However, due to more physical modelling, this version has greater number of input variables (soil parameters, vegetation parameters, etc.). You can read more about this version here:
Moradi, M., Krayenhoff E. S., & Aliabadi, A. A. (2022), 'A comprehensive indoor-outdoor urban climate model with hydrology: The Vertical City Weather Generator (VCWG v2.0.0)', Building and Environment, 207(B), 108406, doi:10.1016/j.buildenv.2021.108406.
Moradi, M. (2021), Ph.D., 'The Vertical City Weather Generator', University of Guelph, Guelph, Canada.
We do not intend to publish VCWG v2.0.0 on GitHub yet, but we will be happy to provide it to you privately on dropbox (etc.) You can include it in UMEP. The license is GNU General Public License v3.0. We like to continue this conversation via email. Please contact me at aliabadi@uoguelph.ca and introduce yourselves and affiliations.
Regards, Amir A. Aliabadi
Dear Amir,
Good to see the development of VCWG moving along.
We are having a discussion regarding incorporating VCWG, rather than UWG into UMEP. This is based on the comments of the reviewers regarding the UWG rural model and subsequent changes you made to VCWG model.
We would like to invite you to join our discussion, if you care to? https://github.com/UMEP-dev/UMEP/discussions/326
The issue is the development of VCWG in Python 2; whereas UMEP requires Python 3. Would you be able to develop VCWG in Python 3?