Dear developers,

I use the RayMan Pro 3.1 Beta for calculation of some biometeorological indices (PMV, PET and UTCI).
However, if the input contains Global Radiation instead of Cloud Cover,
the output is possible only for calculation with the graphical interface, but not if I use an input datafile with meteorological and other variables.
Prof. Matzarakis sent me also older versions of the RayMan model, and I found that RayMan Pro Version 2.1 works with Global Radiation if it is in the datafile.
The problem is that while checking the model output via the graphical interface with Global Radiation,
I found that there are differences in the PMV and UTCI values between the versions Pro 2.1 and Pro 3.1 Beta.
I need a version with a global radiation input option, so is there any update of the last one? I suppose the last version would be the best one,
but can i rely on the older one, and why there are such differences between them?

Dear Dominik,

For the case with global radiation with the newest version, there were any output values, just the column labels of the output variables. I have done an example simulations with the newer version again, and I did succeed to get results in the output file. I suppose the problem was with the date/time formats in the window with output settings. But, now the output values of the indices and other variables are missing values (9999). I did the same simulations with the old version and the output looks normal. I attach the input and the output from the simulation with the newest version, with three rows as you have asked for. The labels are given above the numerical input values. Thank you.

Input

Enumeration Date Time Lon Lat Altitude Temperature RelativeHumidity WindVelocity SurfaceTemperature Albedo GlobalRadiation

1 01.01.2014 00:00 22.210 41.260 893 -2.2 96.5 0.7 4.1 0.1 0.0
5010 09.05.2014 15:00 22.705 42.790 1001 16.6 46.9 2.1 16.2 0.2 448.4
7544 09.05.2014 16:00 24.280 43.555 45 17.6 65.4 0.5 18.8 0.2 91.0

Output

RayMan Pro 2.3 beta © 1999 - 2014
Meteorological Institute, University of Freiburg, Germany

date day of time sunr. sunset SDmax SDact SVF_Ray Gmax Gact Sact Dact A E Ts Ta VP RH v C Tmrt height weight age sex cloth. activ. PMV PET SET* UTCI PT mPET
d.m.yyyy year h:mm h:mm h:mm min min W/m² W/m² W/m² W/m² W/m² W/m² °C °C hPa % m/s octas °C m kg a clo W °C °C °C °C °C
01.01.2014 1 0:00 6:57 16:13 556 555 1.000 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 -2.2 5.0 96.5 0.7 9999.0 9999.0 1.8 75.0 35 m 0.90 80.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0
09.05.2014 129 15:00 4:13 18:38 865 862 1.000 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 16.6 8.9 46.9 2.1 9999.0 9999.0 1.8 75.0 35 m 0.90 80.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0
09.05.2014 129 16:00 4:05 18:33 868 867 1.000 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 17.6 13.1 65.4 0.5 9999.0 9999.0 1.8 75.0 35 m 0.90 80.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0 9999.0