Rainfall data for r.answers

GRASS GRASS user
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Kamarul:

From what I can tell, it looks like you short-circuited how r.answers

deals with inputing new storm event rain gauge data. The
$LOCATION/answers/data/PROJECT/rain directory is where r.answers stores
data in its format *after* it has read in your input file. Thus, when
it is prompting you for the name of a new rainfall event, and
you give it a name of a file in the directory where it stores these, it
is trying to prevent you from over-writing the existing file.

So: the solution is to move your input files to another directory
(preferably not where r.answers stores its data, to avoid further
confusion or corruption of what is has stored for your watershed simulation
senarios). Then you should be able to create new rainfall events and
it should be able to read your rain gauge data files. Another note, if
the rain gauge data file is not in your current working directory when
r.answers prompts for the name, give it the full directory path to
the file.

Chris Rewerts (rewerts@zorro.cecer.army.mil) USA CERL LLN, Champaign, Illinois

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From mohdnaka@helios.aston.ac.uk Wed Mar 29 02:09:15 1995
From: mohdnaka <mohdnaka@helios.aston.ac.uk>
Subject: Re: Rainfall data for r.answers

Dear Answers's users,

I have been trying to use ANSWERS on GRASS model for a drainage basin. I have
problems with the rainfall data input for this model. I have created rainfall
data file and put it under the answers/data/rain directory. When I go to step 5
in the main menu for one gage station rainfall data input, and give the rainfall
data name, I got this message;

******************************************************************************
Do you wish to use more than one rain gauge?(y/n) [n] n

<Using data from one rain gauge.>

Enter the name of the rainfall event:

Enter 'list' for a list of existing rain data storage files
Hit RETURN to cancel request

list

<list>
----------------------------------------------
rain data storage files available in mapset PERMANENT:
gauge3 rain1 rain2 rain3 rain4 rain5 rain6 rain7

----------------------------------------------

Enter the name of the rainfall event:

Enter 'list' for a list of existing rain data storage files
Hit RETURN to cancel request

rain1

<rain1>

** rain1 - exists, select another name **
*****************************************************************************

How can I give the rainfall data file name or basically how does the rainfall
data input in r.answer works.

Thanks for any suggestion on how to solve this problem.

Cheers,

kamarul,
email: mohdnaka@helios.aston.ac.uk