RAPID GIS Tools

These tools generate the RAPID input files and weight table files from the GIS stream networks.

Note

To generate your own network from a DEM see Generating Stream Network

Note

For these tools to work, you need GIS dependencies installed (See Installation).

There are also tools by Esri for ArcMap located here:

Workflows

Static RAPID Files

Weight Table Files

Static RAPID Files and Weight Table Files

Individual Tools

Static RAPID Files

Weight Tables

Utilities

How it works:

Snow, Alan D., Scott D. Christensen, Nathan R. Swain, E. James Nelson, Daniel P. Ames, Norman L. Jones, Deng Ding, Nawajish S. Noman, Cedric H. David, Florian Pappenberger, and Ervin Zsoter, 2016. A High-Resolution National-Scale Hydrologic Forecast System from a Global Ensemble Land Surface Model. Journal of the American Water Resources Association (JAWRA) 1-15, DOI: 10.1111/1752-1688.12434

Snow, Alan Dee, “A New Global Forecasting Model to Produce High-Resolution Stream Forecasts” (2015). All Theses and Dissertations. Paper 5272. http://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/5272