dmna.grid: read (horizontal) grid definition from a file in DMNA-format

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read (horizontal) grid definition from a file in DMNA-format

Description

Files in DMNA format contain gridded data. The header provides information on the grid definition. This function extracts the horizontal grid definition ans provides a list that may be supplied directly to function write.arcgrid. DMNA is used for example by the German national dispersion model AUSTAL.

Usage

dmna.grid(file)

Arguments

file	name (and path if necessary) of the file to read

Value

returns a list of character. List entries are:

xlen	number of cells in x direction
ylen	number of cells in y direction
xll	easting of the lower left (i.e. southwest) corner
yll	northing of the lower left (i.e. southwest) corner
delta	grid node spacing

Note

This function was added in version 1.3.0.

Author(s)

Clemens Druee

References

AUSTAL 3.1 model reference (by Ingenieurbuero Janicke)

Examples

dmna.grid(system.file("extdata", "example-grid.dmna", package="readmet"))

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