Difference between revisions of "Sediment Mass Balance for HFE consideratons- Model explaination"

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How do I run the Sediment Model to indicate what managers look at when considering HFEs? When considering just sediment inputs-

GCMRC Sediment LINK NOTE: Google Chrome works best. Explorer, Foxfire, Mozilla have issues.
GO to the monitoring stations option, and select Paria River at Lees Ferry. (don't just use the sand mass balance options)
NEXT: select cumulative sand load, which is the last option on the left banner.
You can select any time period, and so select __/__/__ to current. That graph will tell you how much sand has entered the Colorado from the Paria.

NEXT: GO to Colorado River at 30 mile and you will see how much of that sand has moved downstream from 30-mile.
THEN: GO to your mass balance page … mass balance is what has gone in (Paria) minus what has gone out (past 30 mile).

[Source: Jack Schmidt]

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 *[http://www.gcmrc.gov/discharge_qw_sediment/ GCMRC Sediment '''LINK''']  NOTE:  Google Chrome works best.  Explorer, Foxfire, Mozilla have issues.
 *GO to the '''monitoring stations option''', and select [http://www.gcmrc.gov/discharge_qw_sediment/station/GCDAMP/09382000 '''Paria River at Lees Ferry''']. (don't just use the sand mass balance options)
-*NEXT:  select '''cumulative sand load''', which is the last option on the left banner.
+*NEXT:  select [http://www.gcmrc.gov/discharge_qw_sediment/station/GCDAMP/09382000# '''cumulative sand load'''], which is the last option on the left banner.
 *You can select any time period, and so select __/__/__ to current.  '''That graph will tell you how much sand has entered the Colorado from the Paria.'''