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5. Main Section: Soils
For every grid in the area, a soil profile and surface material can be chosen individually.
There are two ways to provide this information:
Case A: Each grid in the domain has the same soil profile
In this case no individual information is needed for each single grid point.
A common soil is defined by placing the line \ALLSOILS=“ l”
(if all soils are supposed to be of the “ l” type or any other valid soil ID)
Case B: Grids have different soil profiles
In this case, a complete \SOILS
section has to be used to provide this information.
Click here to see an example section
In both cases, the soil profiles are defined by a two-digit ID (like the vegetation).
All used IDs must be stored in the file PROFILS.DAT
.
Invalid profile definitions will be replaced by the default soil profile, which is the first profile defined in PROFILS.DAT
.
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