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- | ====== The Database File .DAT - Overview ====== | ||
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- | ===== Introduction ===== | ||
- | Besides the two basic files needed for each simulation (//Area Input File// and // | ||
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- | For all these data, the concept followed by ENVI-met is the same: | ||
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- | Each database entry is defined by a two-sign alphanumerical ID (e.g. " | ||
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- | Basically database files are meant to be global files stored in the \sys.basedata directory of the ENVI-met system and they are used for each simulation and all ENVI-met applications. | ||
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- | Consequently, | ||
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- | This also means, that if someone gives you a set of simulations where some new plants (soils, | ||
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- | All database files are simple ASCII-files, | ||
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- | At the moment, there is no editor for the databases available, but it might be available in future. In general it has shown, that the databases are not very often edited, so that the creation of database tools is less important compared to other things. | ||
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- | Click on the following links to see more information about the different databases: | ||
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- | 4B1. Soil Database SOILS.DAT | ||
- | Defining the properties of different natural and artificial soils | ||
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- | 4B2. Profiles Database PROFILS.DAT | ||
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- | Defining different soil types as vertical sandwiches of soils from SOILS.DAT | ||
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- | 4B3. Plant Database PLANTS.DAT | ||
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- | Defining all plants | ||
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- | 4B4. Sources Database SOURCES.DAT | ||
- | Defining the output and emission height of particle or gas sources | ||
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- | 4 Defining additional local databases for plants and sources | ||
- | Links to the [LOCALDB] section description in the configuration file |