Convert PELMO climate files
to RICEWQ format — instantly.
A simple, focused utility that parses PELMO 5.0 .CLI files and generates correctly formatted Fortran-compatible .MET files for RICEWQ — in seconds. Nobody else has built this. Now you don’t have to do it by hand.
Two models. Two incompatible formats.
One manual conversion nobody enjoys.
PELMO and RICEWQ are both widely used in EU plant protection regulatory assessments — but their meteorological file formats are incompatible. If you need to run RICEWQ with PELMO climate data, you have to reformat the files manually.
That means parsing precipitation, evaporation, and temperature fields, reformatting date and day-of-year columns, and matching the fixed-width Fortran layout that RICEWQ expects. It is repetitive, error-prone, and entirely automatable.
This tool does it for you — for any number of files, in seconds.
Input — PELMO 5.0 Climate File
Standard .CLI file with header, containing date, precipitation, evaporation, and temperature data.
Conversion
Automatic parsing and reformatting — date/DOY, precipitation, evaporation, temperature — into fixed-width Fortran-compatible columns.
Output — RICEWQ Meteorological File
Correctly formatted .MET file, ready to use directly in your RICEWQ model run.
Four steps. Seconds of your time.
Select files
Click “Select Files” and choose one or more PELMO .CLI climate files.
Review list
Selected files appear in the list for confirmation before conversion starts.
Convert
Click “Start Conversion”, choose a destination folder, and the tool does the rest.
Done
Your .MET files are ready. Drop them straight into RICEWQ.
Small tool. Specific problem. Completely solved.
Batch Conversion
Select multiple .CLI files at once and convert them all in a single operation. No need to process files one by one.
Instant Output
Conversion takes seconds regardless of file size. Your .MET files are generated and saved to your chosen destination immediately.
Fortran-Compatible Format
Output files follow the exact fixed-width column format required by RICEWQ — date/DOY, precipitation, evaporation, and temperature fields correctly aligned.
PELMO 5.0 Compatible
Designed specifically for standard PELMO 5.0 .CLI climate files with header. No manual pre-processing required.
Simple Interface
No configuration, no setup. Open the tool, select your files, convert. That is all there is to it.
Completely Free
No licence, no registration, no limitations. Download once and use it as many times as you need — forever.
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Built by a regulatory professional,
for regulatory professionals.
I am Stefano Ravagli, founder of Euregulator. I built this converter because I needed it myself — and because nobody had made it available before.
The EUREGULATORy Tools suite is built on the same principle: identify the repetitive, error-prone tasks that regulatory professionals face every day, and automate them. So you can focus on the work that actually requires expert judgement.