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DYNSYSTEM NetSTORM

Overview​

NetSTORM documentation can be found at http://www.dynsystem.com/netstorm/help/netstormhelp.html.

NetSTORM can be downloaded from http://www.dynsystem.com/netstorm/index.html.

NetSTORM Functionality​

According to the NetSTORM Documentation the functionality for this program is as follows:

  • Precipitation intensity
  • Synthetic disaggregation of hourly and higher frequency time series
  • Adaptation of STORM methodology to systems of linked control structures
  • Import and export of US meteorological data in National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and plain text formats

NetSTORM and Chama​

Possible uses for NetSTORM​

There are 2 possible uses for NetSTORM that would be useful in Chama.

  1. Import and convert US meteorological data into the correct format for a rainfall.dat file.
  1. Using a local station and daily rainfall data to desegregate the data into hourly rainfall data.

Rainfall formats​

The format used in rainfall.dat files is:

Gage YYYY MM DD HH MM Value

This is one of the 2 formats that NetSTORM writes.

NetSTORM can convert several formats into this format.

  1. NCDC format for hourly precipitation data (TD-3240) from HydroData
  2. NCDC daily data format (TD-3200) from HydroData
  3. NetSTORM can also read formats distributed by NCDC both hourly and Daily formats.

More information about Precipitation Data Format for NetSTORM can be found at http://www.dynsystem.com/netstorm/help/netstormhelp.html