The Settings are split into 2 Sections. The Mandatory Settings (1) and the Advanced Settings (2). The Mandatory Settings include the General Settings of the Simulation and the choice of Meteorology.

The Advanced Settings allow you to tweak your simulation. However you don't have to perform any changes here.

In the General Settings you define the Scenario you want to work in (3), Simulation Start Time and Date (4).

Additionally you need to define the Simulation Name and Output folder (5) as well as select the Model area file for the simulation (6).

Under (7) you can save the Settings file.

Under Meteorological Settings you can choose between 2 options to define the weather for your microclimate simulation.

Basic weather (1) (former “simple forcing”) allows you to easily create your own weather for one day. You should use this option if you don't have any climate data in the .EPW, .TRY, or CSV format available.

Detailed Weather is the recommended Option (2) and allows you to import .EPW, .TRY, or CSV files.

(1) shows you the temperature and humidity curve over 24 hours. If you change any values, this will be visible in the curve.

(2) and (3) allow you to define the time of maximum & minimum air temperature and humdity.

(4) allows you to define values of air temperature and humidity for specific hours of the day.

Under (5) you can define wind specific settings.

(6) Allows you to define the cloud cover of 3 different heights. This will have impact on the amount of direct solar radiation, that will reach the surfaces. 0 means no cloud cover, 8 resembles a fully clouded sky.

In the Advanced Meteorology Settings you need to import either a .EPW, .TRY or .CSV file containing weather data (1)

Upon loading in one of the 3 mentioned datafiles, the days of meteorology data the file contains will be shown here (2). You can now click on a day and view the different parameters.

At (3) you can choose elements you want to take from the Met.-data file or if you want to define your own values

You can save the file as a Meteo Data file (.FOX-file)

At (4) you can open Meteo Data files you have already created.