read_tcf

The read_tcf module is specifically designed to create models and animations of data that changes over time. This type of data can result from water table elevation and/or chemical measurements taken at discrete times or output from Groundwater simulations or other 3D time-domain simulations.

The read_tcf module creates a field using a Time Control File (.TCF) to specify the date/time, field and corresponding data component to read (in netCDF, Field or UCD format), for each time step of a time_data field. All file types specified in the TCF file must be the same (e.g. all netCDF or all UCD). The same file can be repeated, specifying different data components to represent different time steps of the output.

read_tcf effectively includes internal interpolation between appropriate pairs of the files/data_components specified in the TCF file. Its internal structure only requires reading two successive time steps rather than the complete listing of time steps normally represented in a time_data field.

Module Input Ports

• Date [Number] Accepts a date

Module Output Ports

• Start Date [Number] Outputs the starting date
• End Date [Number] Outputs the ending date
• Date [Number] Output date
• Output Field [Field] Outputs the data field