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ingredients and a suitable platform for gluing together heterogeneous modelingresources under a convenient geographic framework.5.2 MODEL CODE ELEMENTS AS GEOGRAPHIC INTEGRATORSThe geographic integration uses Arc Hydro to georeference informationexchange points represented <strong>by</strong> HydroJunction and CrossSection features in thespatial context. The georeferenced HydroJunction points get associated withhydrologic elements in HEC-HMS <strong>by</strong> means of the SchematicNetwork (anexisting topologic feature in Arc Hydro) which must accurately resemble thetopology of the hydrologic model.Arc Hydro identifies those HydroJunctions that carry runoff hydrographsgenerated in HEC-HMS <strong>by</strong> selecting those HydroJunctions associated with aSchematicNode serving as a runoff entry point <strong>into</strong> the main stem. Thisassociation is represented <strong>by</strong> the HydroJunctionHasSchematicNode relationshipbuilt inside Arc Hydro. Through the relationship class, the <strong>Map</strong>2<strong>Map</strong> applicationreaches the HMS predefined names for the hydrologic elements that are passingrunoff information. These names are model codes termed HMSCodes for HEC-HMS which are populated in the SchematicNetwork to properly identify thehydrologic elements inside the HEC-DSS time series file holding the runoffinformation that needs to be transferred.By doing this, the HydroJunctions carrying runoff hydrographs areidentified. Next, the HydroJunctions need to identify the next downstream crosssection in HEC-RAS topology to receive the runoff hydrograph. Thisidentification is done in Arc Hydro <strong>by</strong> means of a new relationship class in Arc188

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