TERRAIN Tutorial : Miscellaneous

TERRAIN program requires recompilation if your domain configuration and/or requirement for input data exceed what is currently in the deck (see the highlighted PARAMTER statements inside the example terrain.deck).

If you don't have NCAR Graphics on your machine, you should edit Makefile in the TERRAIN directory before you type 'terrain.deck' to compile and run. In Makefile, set NCARGRAPHICS to NONCARG near to top, and you may also need to remove anything in the LOCAL_LIBRARIES line under appropriate machine names.
If you don't have NCAR Graphics, it will be hard to imagine where you have placed your domains. You should find some other way to view your domain setup by reading and plotting the binary output files.

You can use programs RIP/ GRAPH or MM5toGrADS to plot binary output from TERRAIN.

If you have NCAR Graphics, always check the plot file carefully to see if terrain, and landuse are produced correctly.

If you choose to use the 30 sec data option: NTYPE=6, another data directory will be created: Data30s/. The job deck will, based on the domain configuration, compute the area over which 30 sec data are required and go to the USGS ftp site to get them.