- Starting WaNULCAS
- To quit WaNuLCAS
- Units in WaNuLCAS
- Abbreviations used in parameter names
- Why links are not working in Portuguese based Windows
When you start WaNuLCAS
Open the Excel file, answer “yes” on whether or not to enable
macros
Open the Stella file, wait for it to load and answer “yes”
on whether or not to establish links
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When you quit WaNuLCAS
Close the Stella file (save if you want)
Close the Excel file (save if you want)
Before you save your Stella file, you might want to clear graphs and tables
(button on the main menu) in order to save time and KB.
Do NOT rename the wanulcas.xls file (if you do, the link to Stella will not work).
If you want to distinguish one file from another, use separate folders for them instead.
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Units
Zone width/depth in m
Dry weights (DW) in kg m-2 (multiply by 10 to get ton ha-1)
Carbon in g m-2
Nutrients (N and P) in g m-2
Water in l m-2 (or mm)
Soil in Kg m-2
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Abbreviations used in parameter names
AF “Agroforestry Zone” – overall design on the system
B Balance (carbon = BC, nutrient = BN, BS = soil or water=BW)
C Crop (C = Crop, C_N = Crop Nutrient or CW = Crop Water)
Ca Crop Calendar (schedule)
Cent Input Output Summary for Litter (based on Century Model)
Cent2 Input Output Summary for SOM (based on Century Model)
Cq Crop Sequence (crop parameters)
CW Crop Water
E Erosion
Evap Evaporation
G Grazing
LF Lateral Flow
Light
Light
Mc Carbon in Litter Layer
Mc2 Carbon in Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
Mn Nutrients in Litter Layer
Mn2 Nutrients in Soil Organic Matter (SOM)
N Nutrient (currently including N and P)
P Profitability (economic sector of the model)
PD Pest and Disease
Rain Rain
Rt Root
S&B Slash and Burn
S Soil Structure
T Tree
TF Tree Fruit (Oil Palm Module)
Temp Temperature
W
Water
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Why links are not working in Portuguese based
Windows
This is the explanation we get from Stella Customer Service.
"... When DDE links are created from excel, you'll notice in the Link Editor that the link is designated as "R3C5" or something to that effect, which stands for Row 3 Column 5 in the Excel spreadsheet. Only problem is that in Portuguese, "Row" is "Lina," so if you create the link on a Portuguese computer, you see "L3C5" instead. For this reason, if you create the link on a US computer, and try to email it to somebody in another country, it may just not work. The universal antidote to this, regardless of Regional Settings, is to give the export cells a Name in Excel (insert/name/define command), and then manually change the "R3C5" in the Ithink Link Editor to the name of the cell or cell range. This is good practice anyway, since you can then move the linked cell around the spreadsheet as you edit it, and not screw up the link... "
See this document for more information.
For
users experiencing this problem, we provide a special version of WaNuLCAS
which can only be opened using Stella version 6 or above.
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