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ARS Home Midwest Area West Lafayette, Indiana National Soil Erosion Research Laboratory Docs WEPP







BPCDG Installheadline bar 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, 2000The 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 fileBPCDG.DOC
Word 6.0/95/97/2000 format model documentationBPCDG.EXE
DOS executable programAJ1986PL.CSV
sample rainfall data input fileAJ1986CS.CSV
sample temperature & wind data input fileAJ1986CL.DAT
sample wind tables, radiation, dew pointtemperature data input fileAJ1986ST.DAT
sample station data input fileAJ1986PL.CTL
sample rainfall control output fileAJ1986CS.CTL
sample other weather data control output fileAJ1986.ERR
sample program error control output fileAJ1986.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.WEPP Technical SupportUSDA-ARS NSERL1196 Building SOILWest Lafayette, IN 47907-1196email: wepp@ecn.purdue.eduphone: (765) 494-8673FAX : (765) 494-5948


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