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Are there any differences in the remapping process for EFAS & GloFAS? Which information can be merged into a general description?
- A lot of terms are duplicated on these pages: GloFAS mapping locations onto the river network & Mapping locations onto the GloFAS river network . Karen O'Regan combined and updated page.
Cinzia Mazzetti & Ervin Zsoter to review.
As we cannot trust that the location of a station in the model is completely representative of the location of the station in the 'real world' (based off provided coordinates alone), the following protocol to map the stations on the river network should be followed. The overall concept of mapping locations onto the river networks is the same for both EFAS and GloFAS.
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- Google Earth or Google Maps (to verify the station metadata).
- High detail vector river shapefile (e.g. hydroSHEDS at https://hydrosheds.cr.usgs.gov/datadownload.php or http://gaia.geosci.unc.edu/rivers/
- GloFAS river network, represented by the upstream area map (https://cds.climate.copernicus.eu/cdsapp#!/dataset/cems-glofas-historical?tab=form)
- GIS software to display shapefiles and maps (e.g. QGIS at https://www.qgis.org/en/site/forusers/index.html)
- Go to Settings/Options/Network and click on "Use proxy for web access".
- Go to plugins and choose QuickMapServices and click install.
- Maps will be available in the Web tab
- A good enhancement could be to use maps (e.g. Bing or satellite maps) in QGIS. This would provide a more complete workspace in QGIS with the real maps, the high-resolution river layer, and the GloFAS river network in one space overlayed onto each other. Steps to achieve this in QGIS-3:
- Go to Settings/Options/Network and click on "Use proxy for web access".
- Go to plugins and choose QuickMapServices and click install. Maps will be available in the Web tab
- TSview software to display time series from .csv, .txt, excel or LISFLOOD files (https://git.ecmwf.int/users/mocm/repos/tsview/browse)
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