Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model

Mask file

Required:

Always

Name:

User-specified

Read by:

InitTopoMap()

Format:

2D matrix

Purpose:

Contains a mask of the basin, indicating which cells in the other terrain, soil and vegetation files are inside the basin

Details:

If the format is BIN or BYTESWAP, then a signed char should be used.

If the format is NetCDF, then NC_BYTE should be used and the variable name in the NetCDF file should be Basin.Mask

The Outside basin value in the configuration file must be set to indicate which grid cells are outside the basin

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