Soils

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Field name

EPIC name

Units

Type

Default

Comments

1

ID

Long integer

One per Soil. Links to Control Record table field Soil ID

2

Name

Text, 60 characters

Not passed to EPIC

3

Soils 5 ID

Text, 25 characters

Not passed to EPIC

4

Map Unit Symbol

Text, 25 characters

Not passed to EPIC

5

Hydrologic Group

HSG

Byte

Stored in ASCII format (A=65, B=66, C=67, D=68).

6

Number of Layers

Byte

7

Maximum Number of Layers TSLA   Byte   Controls soil layer splitting
8 Initial Splitting Thickness ZTK m Single precision floating point 0

9

Weathering Code

XIDS

Integer

0

10

Albedo

SALB

Single precision floating point

0.1

11

Minimum Thickness

ZQT

m

Single precision floating point

0

12

Minimum Thickness Stop

ZF

cm

Single precision floating point

0

13

Initial Water Content

FFC

Single precision floating point

0

14

Minimum Water Table Depth

WTMN

m

Single precision floating point

0

15

Maximum Water Table Depth

WTMX

m

Single precision floating point

0

16

Initial Water Table Depth

WTBL

m

Single precision floating point

0

17

Subsurface Flow Travel Time

RFTT

days

Single precision floating point

0

18

Initial Groundwater Storage

GWST

mm

Integer

5

19

Maximum Groundwater Storage

GWMX

mm

Integer

100

20

Return Flow Root Zone

RFPK

Single precision floating point

0

21

Previous Years Cultivation

RTN

Integer

100

22 Soil Group XIDK   Byte    
23 C Fraction Biomass Pool FBM   Single precision floating point    
24 Humus Fraction Passive Pool FHP   Single precision floating point    
25 SOT Import XCC Boolean True if soil data was read from previous run as a .SOT file.