In order for EFDC_Explorer to post-process the data the following files must be generated by EFDC:
| EE_WS.OUT | Required. This file contains the water depths. | | EE_VEL.OUT | Recommended. This file contains the 3D velocity field. | | EE_WC.OUT | This file contains the water column results and the information for the top layer of the sediment bed. | | EE_BED.OUT | This file contains the sediment bed data for each sediment bed layer, including the toxics associated with each layer in the original sediment transport model. | | EE_SEDZLJ.OUT | This file contains the sediment bed data, including the toxics associated to each sediment bed layer of the Ziegler, Lick and Jones (SEDZLJ) sediment transport model. | | EE_ARRAYS.OUT | This is an optional file that the EEXPOUT subroutine in EFDC optionally generates. This file contains snapshots of almost any internal EFDC array desired. EFDC_Explorer automatically loads this file and provides visualization if it exists. (See Appendix A for more details). | | EE_WQ.OUT | This file contains the water column results for water quality constituents simulated. | | EE_SD.OUT | This file contains the sediment diagenesis results if the full sediment diagenesis option is turned on. | | EE_RPEM.OUT | This file contains the Rooted Plant and Epiphyte Model results. | | EE_SHF.OUT | This file contains the Shellfish Farm Model results. | | EE_DRIFTER.OUT | This file contains the time history of the location of the particles from the Lagrangian particle tracking feature if turned on. | EE_RPEM.OUT | This file contains the Rooted Plant and Epiphyte Model results. | | EE_BC.OUT | This file contains flows for boundary conditions. |
These files are created by EFDC_DSI and the version of EFDC_GVC that DS-INTL distributes on our website. EFDC_Explorer allows the user to set the appropriate options to view EFDC output. EFDC_Explorer generates the EFDC input files needed when the project is saved. EFDC then reads the input files and writes the EFDC_Explorer linkage files.
The following subroutines are used by EFDC to write the EFDC_Explorer linkage files:
| SURFPLT | Writes the depths for each cell for each snapshot into the file EE_WS.OUT. Water surface elevations are computed by adding the bottom elevations of the cells at the same model snapshot time. | | VELPLTH | Writes the U & V velocities in IJ space to the file EE_VEL.OUT. This allows EE the use velocities on U, and V cell faces for flux calculations. For visualizations, EE transforms the velocities by computing a cell centroid U & V, then rotating them to the XY space using the cell rotations. | | EEXPOUT | This is the main subroutine for writing the linkage files for EE. Depending on the options selected, this routine will write the files EE_WC.OUT, EE_BED.OUT, EE_ARRAYS.OUT, EE_WQ.OUT, EE_SD.OUT and EE_RPEM.OUT. | | DRIFTER | This is the Lagrangian Particle Tracking module. It writes the particle positions to the EE_DRIFTER.OUT at an independent snapshot frequency to the other output data. |
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