- Author
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Christopher, P. M.
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Vogt, M.
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Hall, D.
- Title
- Residential Solar Data Center: MIRADS User's Guide. Final Report.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Washington, DC
- Sponsor
- Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, DC
- Report
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NBSIR 80-2144
October 1980
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
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solar energy; information systems; manuals; residential buildings; information retrieval; data processing
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solar energy
- Identifiers
- Residential Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program; MIRADS; National Bureau of Standards
- Abstract
- The Residential Solar Data Center Project staff in the Center for Building Technology, National Bureau of Standards, maintains a computerized data base containing non-instrumented residential data from the DoE/HUD Solar Heating and Cooling Demonstration Program. Data contained in the solar data base are accessible online to users of the NBS Center Computer via remote terminals with a data base retrieval software package called MIRADS (Marshall Information Retrieval And Display System). This document is a self-teaching user's guide to the solar data base. It is complete with the basic MIRADS language rules, examples of use, and a step-by-step walk-through of a typical interactive session. Appendices contain all the data element names and coded values needed to use the solar data with MIRADS, as well as many examples of actual computer sessions.