Terrain and land use for the fifth-generation Penn State/NCAR Mesoscale Modeling System (MM5): Program TERRAIN

Some instructions for running TERRAIN and the description of the TERRAIN source code are also provided. Chapters 1 and 4 are for users who are interested in knowing how to run the TERRAIN program.

For users who need to add their own terrain height or land-use files as input to TERRAIN, Chapter 2 has detailed instructions on how to reconstruct the users' own data files. Chapter 3 describes the methods used in TERRAIN to obtain the final terrain height and land-use fields. Chapter 5 provides users specific information regarding the TERRAIN source code.