Hi Tom,

What if we are assuming instantaneous flow and no storage and all of the input 
flow variable leaves the system. Then is r.watershed usable to calculate 
accumulation?

  -k. 

Please excuse brevity. Sent from pocket computer with tiny non-haptic feedback 
keyboard. 

> On 31 Aug 2017, at 21:17, Thomas Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
> You wrote:
> 
> 'If I give r.watershed a precip map as input (flow parameter), doesn't it 
> route that water down the DEM? And if I know the x,y coordinate of a point in 
> a stream, doesn't the accumulation at that point represent all of the 
> up-basin precip that is routed past that point?'
> 
> ANSWER: NO!!!! r.watershed is NOT a hydrologic model and does NOT take 
> precipitation as an input raster.
> 
> 'Daily water runoff from the Greenland ice sheet for ~50 years'
> 
> ANSWER: NO!!!! same as above
> 
> You want something like r.topmodel or r.sim.water in GRASS, not that I'm 
> necessarily suggesting these would meet your needs. There is also ITZI 
> (https://www.itzi.org/) which may be appropriate since flow over glaciers (if 
> you're focused on glaciers) in Greenland, should be largely impervious.
> 
> You would need r.watershed and r.water.outlet to aid you in the application 
> of hydrologic models like topmodel, ITZI, and sim.water. But, there are many 
> dozens more hydrologic models, such as VIC, PRMS, etc.
> 
> Tom
> 
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:01 PM, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Tom,
>> 
>> > On 31 Aug 2017, at 20:30, Thomas Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > You "want 14,000 values" of what??
>> 
>> One grid cell from each of 14,000 accumulation rasters.
>> 
>> > Your original email stated you were "trying to determine flow past a 
>> > drainage basin outlet" -- r.watershed does NOT do this, if indeed this is 
>> > what you want.
>> 
>> If I give r.watershed a precip map as input (flow parameter), doesn't it 
>> route that water down the DEM? And if I know the x,y coordinate of a point 
>> in a stream, doesn't the accumulation at that point represent all of the 
>> up-basin precip that is routed past that point?
>> 
>> > And you say you have "14,000 flow rasters to be used as input" -- what 
>> > exactly are these 'flow rasters';
>> 
>> Daily water runoff from the Greenland ice sheet for ~50 years.
>> 
>> > what is your goal? I may not understand...
>> 
>> To find the daily stream flow at a point, based on the runoff that feeds 
>> into that point, or any upstream runoff that eventually makes it to that 
>> point.
>> 
>> Clearly there is a miscommunication issue here. I apologize if I am not 
>> being clear or using incorrect terminology.
>> 
>>   -k.
> 
> 
> 
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