OWC Wizard vs. Climate Analyst

[yigit]

I am wondering what is the difference between these two tools. Both of them can prepare .tab files. What is the extra work of Climate Analyst? If anyone can help me, I'll be very pleased.

Regards,

Yigit

[Niels Gylling Mortensen]

The Climate Analyst can make an observed extreme wind climate for WAsP Engineering as well, which the Wizard can't. For WAsP, the Analyst can make the observed mean wind climate and export it as a TAB or an OWC file. The TAB file should be identical to the Wizards TAB file, but the OWC is a newer XML-based format which can contain much more information about the data and the analysis. This information is carried over to and can be shown in WAsP, which is a big advantage.


The user interface and functionality of the two programs are quite different and the Analyst is faster for processing of many data files since protocols/import filters can be pre-defined. The user is less likely to make errors this way, in my experience.


Finally, the Wizard is actually retired now and will not be updated or supported anymore, whereas all our effort in the future will go into the Analyst. -- You can read more about the programs in the WAsP and Climate Analyst Help files.