INTRODUCTION
These files are of type ascii or text, and are formatted to use with several circulating programs, including degree-day calculators (PASHEAT), simple degree-day models (GENMOD within IPMP), and full featured phenology models (PETE). NETSCAPE and perhaps other web browsers have been showing a problem because they do not handle text files with unrecognized file extensions (such as .wea used here) properly. NETSCAPE will remove carriage returns (ascii character ^M or #13) when it does not know what kind of file it is. When this occurs, the files may LOOK normal in a word processor or text editor, but they are actually corrupted to the programs mentioned above.

There are several solutions to this problem:
1. Save the files as .txt files from NETSCAPE (then change back to .wea using your file manager). NETSCAPE knows how to handle text files if they have a .txt extension.
2. Set up your copy of your browser to that it knows that .wea is associated with the type text/plain (In NETSCAPE, select menu item [Options], [General Preferences], [Helpers]. Then find the filetype TEXT/PLAIN and add .WEA to the list of extensions).
3. We will implement a .zip version of these files that can be downloaded more quickly, then unzipped using various utility programs, thus preserving the format.
4. We are working on versions of degree-day calculators and phenology models that use these data directly over the web. These will most likely be written in Java or Javascript.