| 3 | | A particular output file is river_desc.nc |
| | 6 | A particular output file is river_desc.nc, which contains the upstream area of each grid point of each river basin in which the routing is activated. |
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| | 8 | This information is very useful if you have doubts on the location of a gauging station in the simulated river network: due to the coarse resolution of the latter, a stream or a confluence can be misplaced in the simulated network, so the coordinates of a real-world gauging station fall in a grid-cell which does not correspond to good stream. In such a case, you must change the gauging station coordinate to match the location of the stream in the simulated river network. the River_desc file is very useful to this end, at least for large river, since you can evaluate which gric-cell has an upstream area matching the one of the real-world gauging station |
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| | 10 | river_desc.nc is produced if you activate the routing scheme and you set RIVER_DESC = y (default for the first simulated year in recent trunk versions. |
| | 11 | You will get information for the n largest river basins of the world, as defined by ROUTING_RIVERS = n (default value is 50). |
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| | 13 | If you need river_desc.nc and it has been produced, it is located in the output files, in SRF/Debug. |
