4.4 Output Files

Table 4.10: List of Most Commonly Used Output File Types

File	Extension	Description
Comma Delimited Files	.csv	Text format output geometry check files and stability diagnostic outputs.
ArcGIS Shapefile Layers	.shp .dbf .shx .prj	Output GIS check files in ArcGIS’s industry standard for GIS layers.
MapInfo MIF/MID Files	.mif .mid	Output GIS check files in MapInfo’s industry standard GIS data exchange format.
QGIS Workspace	.qgs	Check file written to the log directory. A QGIS workspace file that contains the input and output GIS layers used by a simulation.
Mapinfo Workspace	.wor	Check file written to the log directory. A Mapinfo workspace file that contains the input and output GIS layers used by a simulation.
NetCDF	.nc	The recommended file output format for TUFLOW FV. Supports unstructured 2D and 3D map output. Ability to view raw cell centre, or vertex interpolated results.
TUFLOW Plot Control	.tpc	File read by the TUFLOW QGIS plugin to associate output timeseries data with GIS plotting locations such as flux nodestrings and point outputs.
Structure Log File	.slf	CSV text output that logs the state of hydraulic structures that operate using control block features. For example the .slf can report if a a storm tide gate how a storm tide gate opens and closes during a simulation.
SMS Super File	.sup	SMS super file containing the various files and other commands that make up the output from a single simulation. Opening this file in SMS or QGIS opens the .2dm file and the primary .xmdf file or .dat files.
SMS Data File	.dat	SMS generic formatted simulation results file. Results reported at cell vertices. Supports 2D model outputs or 2D slices of 3D models.
SMS XMDF File	.xmdf	An alternative to using the .dat files described above . .xmdf files are much faster to access and can contain all TUFLOW map output within a single file (rather than one file per output type as for the .dat format). Results reported at cell vertices. Supports 2D model outputs or 2D slices of 3D models.
TUFLOW FV Log File	.log	A log file containing information about the 1D/2D/3D data input process and a log of the simulation.
TUFLOW FV Restart File	.rst	A snapshot computational results at an instant in time, used for hot-restart of simulations. Written to the model log directory.
TUFLOW FV Transport File	_trans.nc	Output file that saves hydrodynamic variable data at a user defined output interval. Used to run subsequent simulations in hydrodynamic offline mode.