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Mon, 09/15/2003 - 6:30am — halikia
I am trying to do a Model sensitivity analyze for CE-QUAL-W2. My idea is that by decreasing the shading the short wave solar radiation that reaches the waterbody will increase and there so the surface waterbody temperature has to increase too. To do so I have decreased the shading [DYSNH] from 1.0 to 0.9 but the surface temperature of the waterbody decreased to 5%. I don
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Mon, 09/15/2003 - 10:27am — Tom

The way shading is handled is probably not immediately clear, but it is similar to the way wind sheltering is handled. Solar radiation is multiplied by the shading factors, so a shading factor of 0.9 will reduce solar radiation by 10%, the effects of which is what you are observing in the model output. [addsig]
Wed, 11/04/2015 - 4:57am — Laura

I have a problem with the shading. I'm using [DYSNH] = 0.9, but a warning appears and says that shade = 100% and in the TSR file I see that no short wave radiation is reaching the water surface. Can anybody help me? What am I doing wrong?

Wed, 11/04/2015 - 2:54pm — Amir

Check the format. Did you use the F8.0 format correctly. For example, segment number should be instead of numbers one and the shading value instead of twos here (1111111122222222). If they are less than 8 digits you have to put spaces instead
Sat, 11/21/2015 - 12:26am — Laura

I solved the problem. Instead of using <.csv> format, I tried using <.npt> format and it worked. Thank you.