Introduction
In numerical modelling, it is often important to check your model results with real-life observations. The 'Tide Stations' toolbox allows to allows the user both to to both view and download water level time series derived using astronomical constituents for a selected tidal station and to directly define observations points in series. These time-series may be filtered for certain astronomical constituents. I is also possible to directly define observation points for Delft3D-FlOW. Dashboard makes use of both the station of IHO and XTide stations.
Usage - View and download water levels
A tidal station can be selected with the mouse from the Map View or chosen among one of the hundreds available chosen from the list of available “Tide stations”. There are three options available for each tidal stationsstation:
- “View Tide Signal” can be used to view the tide signal between “Start Time” and “Stop Time”.
- “Export tide signal” can be used to export the time series at the selected location in a tek-format. It is also possible to change this to to a Matlab format.in *.mat or *.tek format.
- "Export components" can be used to export the components of the tidal signal i a mat-format. It is also possible to change this to a tek-in *.mat or *.tek format.
Usage - Make observation points
An interesting possibility for the Delft3D-flow model is the option of 'Make Observation Points'. With this button On clicking, the user creates with one click observation points within Delft3D-flow FLOW at all the locations of the tidal stations. When this option is combined with 'Export Tide Signal' a quick comparison of the accuracy of the simulation is possible. This possibility is also showed in See also Tutorial 1: set-up a tidal model.
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