Landscape Units

A Landscape Unit (LSU) is a collection of HRUs. It can be equivalent to a subbasin, a floodplain or upland unit, or a grid cell with multiple HRUs. LSUs are currently only used for summarizing landscape outputs. Two files are needed to define which HRUs are part of which LSU:

• ls_unit.def specifies which HRUs a LSU contains.

• ls_unit.ele lists all HRUs and their corresponding LSU and basin fractions.