Hi Tom,

You sound like my friend reviewer #2. :)

But seriously, I thank you for thinking critically about what I'm trying to do. 
However, the inputs I have come from a couples land/ice/snow/atmosphere 
regional climate model with rain, snowfall, eval, condensations, storage in 
snow and land, and melting of snow and ice. I think it would be incorrect to 
take this product and do anything other than route instantaneously and 
completely at this point. 

  -k. 

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

> On 31 Aug 2017, at 22:49, Thomas Adams <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Ken,
> 
> That would be a gross misapplication of r.watershed and, I'm afraid, is just 
> bad science; I just don't know how to be more clear on that...
> 
> Tom
> 
>> On Thu, Aug 31, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Ken Mankoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 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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