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

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The pathname may consist of up to 391 characters. It is, <strong>by</strong> convention, separated<strong>into</strong> six parts with a forward slash delimiter. Again, when accessing a block ofdata in a DSS file, the full data’s pathname (including optional parts if they weredefined at creation) must be given along with the header’s metadata, that is,beginning time, units of the data, and type of data stored in the internal header ofthe data’s block. By convention, each part in the pathname is referenced <strong>by</strong> theletters A, B, C, D, E, and F, which are delimited <strong>by</strong> a forward slash with the form:/A/B/C/D/E/F/.The pathname is used to describe the data in enough detail that variousapplication programs can write to and read data from HEC-DSS <strong>by</strong> “simply”knowing the pathname (USACE, 1995). A brief description of each pathname partfollows to provide the fundamentals for the integration of time series as crucialcomponent in <strong>Map</strong>2<strong>Map</strong>.Part A: A logical grouping name for all records (blocks) that belong to aspecific project or study (e.g., the name of the watershed case study). This part isoptional.Part B: Identifier of the geographic element that owns the time seriesrecords (site location of the data). For example the gage ID that provides ageoreferenced location to the data. This part is not optional.Part C: Variable type description (e.g., FLOW, PRECIP, STAGE, etc.).The user can define his own variable type descriptions or use the recommendedC-part names as listed in the user’s guide (USACE, 1995). This part is notoptional.82

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