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WeatherMan: A Utility for Managing and Generating Daily Weather Data
Author(s) -
Pickering N. B.,
Hansen J. W.,
Jones J. W.,
Wells C. M.,
Chan V. K.,
Godwin D. C.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.2134/agronj1994.00021962008600020023x
Subject(s) - raw data , software , computer science , parameterized complexity , transfer (computing) , missing data , data mining , database , machine learning , algorithm , operating system , programming language
Daily weather data commonly used in simulation models of agricultural or ecological systems are sometimes incomplete, frequently contain errors, and are often in an inconvenient format. The WeatherMan is a user‐oriented software package designed to assist in preparing daily weather data for use with simulation models. The software can import or export daily weather files with any column format (including the Decision Support System for Agrotechnology Transfer ver. 2.1 and ver. 3.0 files) and convert the data to desirable units. Data are checked and flagged for possible errors on import. Several techniques are available for filling in missing values and erroneous data on export. WeatherMan also contains two methods ( WGEN and SIMMETEO ) for stochastically generating sequences of daily weather data. Both methods can be parameterized from the daily data and the second method uses monthly means from any secondary data source. Summary statistics of raw and generated data can be graphed or presented in tables.