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TOPOFL
TOPOFL is topographic input file. A topography file is 2 byte
little endian (LSB) raster of elevation data prepended by an
80 byte header that describes the navigation bounds.
TOPOFL can be either a file name, or a known abbreviation
(current abbreviations are DEM30 and DEM5 as described below).
If TOPOFL is DEM30, the source terrain file is the 30 second
topographic data set obtained from NGDC's GLOBE data set:
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/topo/globe.shtml
Note that this data set does not contain bathymetry. Sea
floor is set to constant -500m.
If TOPOFL is DEM5, the source file is the 5 minute topographic
and bathymetric data set from NGDC's ETOP terrainbase set:
https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/seg/fliers/se-1104.shtml
Topography files can be obtained from:
5 minute dataset (aka DEM5):
https://my.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/168/world_topo.5min.gz
30 second dataset (aka DEM30):
https://my.unidata.ucar.edu/downloads/169/world_topo.30s.gz
Topography files can be placed in $GEMTBL/unidata/.