More detail will be given later for each individual input screen. This is the preferred and most secure units. Provides conversion to English from metric inputs. Select the option for fixed crop curves until an advanced user. Definitions of which previously named files are applicable to the study field for the evaporation, precipitation, and temperature.
Snow fall is accumulated and melted by the program if air temperature data is also provided.
Blank values are assumed to represent missing daily data and mean monthly daily values are substituted. This file is only required if winter regimes or nitrogen budgets are involved. Select each input for file designation by the mouse or tab will bring up the file finder, then move through the directories to locate the appropriate file to be used in the impending simulation. Optional observed data of soil moisture and soil chemicals are input from subsequent screens by specifying observation dates and values for each soil layer. Basic run parameters are specified such as run dates from a calendar selector screen.