Within FEWS, and thus NGMS, locations are essential as they are the placeholder to all model inputs and output.
The locations concept and the application within NGMS is described in a seperate page.
One of the most time consuming and error prone parts of the system is setting up those locations and ensuring that the Ids of observation data and model data, as defined in the WEL and STR files, match the licences and or gauging stations. To assist in this process, a standard data template has been produced, as well as an locations-generator spreadsheet which automates the process of sorting, IdMapping and XML-file generation.
prepare Locations spreadsheet
Check presence of all worksheets
Populate and verify worksheet Grids_loc and Grids_locSets
Populate and verify worksheet GWunits_loc and GWunits_locSets
Populate and verify worksheet GWabs_org
Populate and verify worksheet OBH_org
Populate and verify worksheet Gauges_org
Populate and verify worksheet SWlat_org
Populate and verify worksheet Branches_org
Populate and verify worksheets for GWabs_IDMap (4 worksheets)
Populate and verify worksheets for SWlat_IDMap (4 worksheets)
Generate locations XML-files
Update Grids.XML file
