Opaque Sky Cover is used in Calculation when Horizontal Infrared Radiation Intensity is not missing in Simualtion Weather File

[TiejunWu]

Issue overview

Based on EnergyPlus documentation, Opaque Sky Cover is not used unless Horizontal Infrared Radiation Intensity is missing in the simulation weather data. However, from the attached example, it is observed that for the attached example, Opaque sky cover is used regardless of the availability of Horizontal Infrared Radiation Intensity data in the simulation weather data file.

Details

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• Windows 10 64 bit
• EnergyPlus 9.4 64 bit
• N/A

Checklist

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• Defect file added (list location of defect file here)
• Example IDF file
• Weather File 1: OSC Data Missing
• Weather File 2: OSC Data Available
• Ticket added to Pivotal for defect (development team task)
• Pull request created (the pull request will have additional tasks related to reviewing changes that fix this defect)