ZONE - Zone File

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Abbreviation in Name file

ZONE

Purpose

The Zone File  is used to specify zone arrays which can be used to specify the cells in a layer variable that are associated with a parameter.

Documentation

Harbaugh, A.W., Banta, E.R., Hill, M.C., and McDonald, M.G., 2000, MODFLOW-2000, the U.S. Geological Survey modular ground-water model -- User guide to modularization concepts and the Ground-Water Flow Process: U.S. Geological Survey Open-File Report 00-92, 121 p.

Supported in

MODFLOW-2000
MODFLOW-2005

Input Instructions

Input to define zone arrays is read from the file that is specified with "ZONE" as the file type. Zone arrays can be used to specify the cells in a layer variable that are associated with a parameter.

FOR EACH SIMULATION

0.

[#Text]

Item 0 is optional—“#” must be in column 1. Item 0 can be repeated multiple times.

Text—is a character variable (199 characters) that starts in column 2. Any characters can be included in Text. The “#” character must be in column 1. Except for the name file, lines beginning with # are restricted to these first lines of the file. Text is printed when the file is read.

1.

NZN—is the number of zone arrays to be defined. The maximum number of zone arrays is 500.

Items 2-3 are repeated for each of the NZN zone arrays.

2.

ZONNAM—is the name of a zone array. This name can consist of 1 to 10 characters and is not case sensitive; that is, any combination of the same characters with different case are equivalent. The name “ALL” should not be used for a zone array because it is a reserved word.

3.

IZON(NCOL,NROW) - U2DINT

IZON—is a zone array.