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Converting a NEXRAD Rainfall Map into a Flood Inundation Map by ...

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workflow model (herein in a GIS environment called ModelBuilder) can be usedto empower a seamless end-to-end integration as the gluing platform that preventsthe conventional step-wise approach.The true geographically-driven integration proposed in this researchempowers a spatial linkage of all the necessary flow exchange points (hydrographentry points) via a connection based on ModelCodes. For HEC-HMS theHMSCode is represented <strong>by</strong> the name of the hydrologic elements entering arunoff hydrograph to the stream network and geographically represented in GIS.For HEC-RAS a RASCode constructed with the union of the StreamID, ReachID,and Station is proposed to establish the connection between GIS and HEC-RAS.This connection makes possible the transfer of information (runoff hydrographs)from HEC-HMS elements to HEC-RAS cross sections via a geographicframework represented <strong>by</strong> the Arc Hydro data model for water resources.None of the reported systems (out of only two that include the hydrologicend) allow for readily incorporating rainfall inputs of various natures and formslike historic, real-time, forecasted, and design storm events. The modularcharacter of the proposed integration allows code reuse of common elements andstraight forward incorporation of new components to account for several rain mapformats potentially used to drive the system. By having this flexibility, it ispossible to drive the integrated system with diverse rain maps to generatemultipurpose flood maps.The herein proposed integration system relies on pre-existing modelingsystems that might be fully generated for a given study area <strong>by</strong> means of Interface22

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