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Breakpoint Climate Data Generator (BPCDG)
Download Page
(If you have already installed the WEPP Windows interface than the BPCDG program can be found in the data/climates/bpcdg subdirectory - it does not have to be downloaded and installed again)
Download the ZIP file BPCDG.ZIP (if you don't already have the WEPP Windows interface installed)
February 29, 2000
The file BPCDG.ZIP is an archive containing all of the files needed to run the BPCDG program.
To install the BPCDG - BreakPoint Climate Data Generator program on your computer and obtain a set of sample input and output files, create a directory to place the files, for example "BPCDG". Copy the file BPCDG.ZIP to the directory, then extract the files. It will create the following files:
| README.TXT | an information text file |
| BPCDG.DOC | Word 6.0/95/97/2000 format model documentation |
| BPCDG.EXE | DOS executable program |
| AJ1986PL.CSV | sample rainfall data input file |
| AJ1986CS.CSV | sample temperature & wind data input file |
| AJ1986CL.DAT | sample wind tables, radiation, dew point temperature data input file |
| AJ1986ST.DAT | sample station data input file |
| AJ1986PL.CTL | sample rainfall control output file |
| AJ1986CS.CTL | sample other weather data control output file |
| AJ1986.ERR | sample program error control output file |
| AJ1986.CLI | sample WEPP climate file output by BPCDG |
To run the program, either double-click on the file BPCDG while in Windows Explorer, or while in a DOS window type BPCDG and enter. The BPCDG program will prompt you for the two letter station id code (for the sample files the code is "AJ"), and the year of data to use (for the sample files the year is 1986). The program will overwrite existing output files.
Please see the file README.TXT as well as the BPCDG model documentation for more information.
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