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fish habitat volumes input file and spreadsheet profile output file

Sun, 04/26/2015 - 7:21pm — Katherine
Is it possible for the spr.opt file to be used to plot vertical profiles of longitudinal and vertical velocities? From the manual I understand it can only be used to plot temperstures and constituents but was looking for a similarly easy way to be able to plot the velocity (even if its not as a vector). I know with the vector plot file (VPLFN) I can plot velocity vectors but will need to develop a plotting program for it. Also, I've used the w2_habitat.npt file to calculate the volume of fish habitat based on temperature targets and was wondering if there was a way to obtain this volume at specific segments instead of the whole waterbody. I appreciate the help! Thanks
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Tue, 04/28/2015 - 12:42pm — Amir

Hi Katherine, You can use contours as well. for having U & W, there are three ways; TSR,VPL & CPL. In CPL, use the TECPLOT option and the model create the outputs for TECPLOT software. TECPLOT is an easy to use tool that reads the CE-QUAL-W2 outputs and generate graphs for you. You can use the trial version for free. But you have to update the trail every three days. For your fish habitat calculations, since you only have temperature targets, you can calculate that manually. The calculations are simple. Use the SPR files(or other outputs) for your desired segment. For each layer, if temperature is between the upper and lower ranges for the specified fish, it is considered as habitat. ************ T(Layer,Seg)<= fishtemp_High .and. T(Layer,Seg) > fishtemp_Low ********************************************** You have the volume for each layer from your bathymetry. It is an easy to do task but time consuming. At the moment, this is the only option you have.