Dear Ellen,

If you can be more specific about what you want to do with weather data,
I can probably answer your questions. The WeatherMan software in DSSAT
can handle any column spacing, any units for supported variables, and
several date formats imported from a text file, provided that the text
file is column-formatted, with rows as days and variables as columns.
Columns must be separated by spaces, not by tabs. If spacing or units
are different than the standard DSSAT2 or DSSAT3 formats provided, you
will need to specify the NEW format, enter the appropriate format
information, and save the format specification under a name of your
choice so you can reuse it in the future. Import | Multiple files is
available for convenience in situations where you have a number of raw
data files (e.g., individual years) for the same location.

DSSAT does not provide tools with the same flexibility for processing
soil data. With an existing soil profile description as an example,
creative use of spreadsheets and text editor macros can simplify the
process of creating a number of correctly-formatted soil descriptions.
If you need to estimate the hydrological parameters from measured
physical properties (i.e., texture, bulk density and organic C), the
SDB3 program in DSSAT can help, and there are several published
algorithms that can be implemented more conveniently in spreadsheets.

Ellen Kettner wrote:

> Louis,
> thank you for the information, did you import the data with <import single
> file>?
> Ellen
>
> Dear list,
> I have still the problem to import soil data from .txt files.
> Ellen
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: DSSAT - Crop Models and Applications
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]Im Auftrag von Louis
> Gesendet: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 2:36 PM
> An: [log in to unmask]
> Betreff: Re: Import
>
>
> Dear Ellen,
> I have only had experience importing Climate data and that is quite easy by
> using the Excel facility to save as  a .prn text file. The only thing you
> will have to do is play around with the width of the columns in Excel so
> that you do not have too many spaces between the columns in the .prn file.
> Louis du Pisani
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ellen Kettner <[log in to unmask]>
> To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 9:58 AM
> Subject: Import
>
>
>
>> Dear List,
>> I have problems to import data from .txt or .xls format
>> in Dssat35. Do you have experience in importing data
>> and which editor and spread shet you would prefer to
>> format data?
>>
>> Thanks for help
>> Ellen
>>

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