Open kbarnhart opened 6 years ago
An additional thought here.
This issue can be generalized as a problem with the rock till contact, the initial topographic elevation, AND the initial soil thickness.
A possible approach would be to permit that each of these three fields can be specified either by an input file OR by parameters to a generic function "create_field"
it could take as arguments options related to the mean of the initial surface (as a function of node_x and node_y, where this mean is applied (core nodes or all nodes), the properties of random noise applied, and where this noise is applied.
This may also help with the standardization of a BMI for terrainbento
Historically all terrainbento models were initialized using a DEM, thus we specified the contact layer as a DEM.
However, for synthetic test cases, it would be nice to be able to specify the contact elevation as a numpy array.