Format Structure

The classic CSV file format used by the BASIC version of Newhall is a simple file format which contains the bare minimum in order to run the model. It consists only of a station name, a country, degrees/minutes for a location, hemispheres, elevation, unit system, precipitation, temperature, and year(s). Unit system is denoted as either a “E” or “M” for english and metric respectively.

The general structure follows the following pattern. White space is ignored by both the BASIC version and the Java version.

Station Name, Country, Degrees Latitude, Minutes Latitude, N/S Hemisphere,
Degrees Longitude, Minutes Longitude, E/W Hemisphere, Elevation [NEWLINE]

Pre0, Pre1, Pre2, Pre3, Pre4, Pre5, Pre6, Pre7, Pre8, Pre9, Pre10, Pre11,
Tmp0, Tmp1, Tmp2, Tmp3, Tmp4, Tmp5, Tmp6, Tmp7, Tmp8, Tmp9, Tmp10, Tmp11,
Starting Year, Ending Year, Unit System [NEWLINE]

Example

Included in the binary distribution of Newhall should be several dozen example legacy CSV files. Refer to them if you need more examples.

"Mead Agronomy Lab","USA",41,10,"N",96,25,"W",1180 [NEWLINE]
.8,.46,.06,.99,4.08,4.14,3.26,1.62,2.94,.85,.05,.66,32,15,37,55,63,69,76,
73,63,54,36,17,1989,1989,"E" [NEWLINE]

"Dickinson Expt Station ND","USA",46,53,"N",102,48,"W",2460 [NEWLINE]
.43 , .38 , .68 , 1.42 , 2.38 , 3.67 , 2.16 , 1.79 , 1.36 , .95 , .52 , .39
, 10.8 , 15 , 26.2 , 41.2 , 52.6 , 61.9 , 68.5 , 66.9 , 55.9 , 44.2 ,
28.3 , 16.5 ,1903,1996,"E" [NEWLINE]