Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model

Soil type file

Required:

Always

Name:

User-specified

Read by:

InitSoilMap()

Format:

2D Matrix

Purpose:

Contains the soil type for each pixel. The ID numbers correspond to those specified in the configuration file.

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 Soil.Type

The soil type file is masked based on the content of the mask file.

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