When reservoir outflow is simulated with measured daily/monthly outflow, a discharge file (.day/.mon) would be generated. The file would be overwritten when the simulation is setup with the given simulation period. For those who don’t use ArcSWAT/SWAT Editor to run the model, remember to setup simulation before running the model if there are reservoir or point source in your watershed and the daily/monthly discharge method is used.
The data flow of reservoir discharge data in ArcSWAT/SWAT Editor is described below. Point source discharge data (.DAT) also follows exactly the same data flow.
1. Prepare the original discharge data in dbf/txt format
Daily
“DATE”, “RESOUTFLOW”
1/1/1978,0.00
1/2/1978,0.00
Monthly
“Year”,”Resout1″,”Resout2″,”Resout3″,”Resout4″,”Resout5″,”Resout6″,”Resout7″,”Resout8″,”Resout9″,”Resout10″,”Resout11″,”Resout12″
1990,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
1991,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0,0.0
Note: The comma in the column name is a must. You may expect an error message shown below if they are missing.
2. Import the discharge data in ArcSWAT/SWAT Editor. The discharge data would be imported to timeseries data in project mdb. Note that TSTypeID is 0 and the time is same as the original discharge file. The data here should cover the future simulation period.
3. Re-write .Res/.Lwq, which would re-write all RES file and possible MON/DAY file. Note that the data in the generated DAY file doesn’t started from Jan 1, 1990 (in which day the discharge is 0.07 m3/s) as the simulation period hasn’t been set. ArcSWAT/SWAT Editor may set an arbitrary starting and ending date here to make the time range big enough (like from 1/1/1000 to 1/1/3001). This is not the final version used in simulation.
.DAY
Daily Reservoir Outflow file: .day file Subbasin:40 9/25/2014 12:00:00 AM ArcSWAT 2012.10_1.15
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
0.00
4. Setup Simulation, the MON/DAY file would be overwritten again to extract discharge data fell between the starting date and ending date from timeseries datatable. Now the data in DAY file starts from Jan 1, 1990.
.DAY
Daily Reservoir Outflow file: .day file Subbasin:40 9/25/2014 12:00:00 AM ArcSWAT 2012.10_1.15
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
0.07
