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| | {|class="wikitable" | | {|class="wikitable" |
| − | |+A RWH cistern as a storage element | + | |+A RWH cistern as a storage element (key parameters) |
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| | !colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Stage Storage | | !colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Stage Storage |
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| | + | |Name||Important to have a unique name, to associate with the subcatchment (harvesting area) |
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| | |Storage type||No removal | | |Storage type||No removal |
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| | |Catchment||In many scenarios this will be the roof area, delineated on the map as a 'subcatchment'. | | |Catchment||In many scenarios this will be the roof area, delineated on the map as a 'subcatchment'. |
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| − | |?||Lined | + | |Lined/unlined||Lined |
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| | |Underlying soil||''Any:This doesn't matter for RWH cistern systems'' | | |Underlying soil||''Any:This doesn't matter for RWH cistern systems'' |
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| | |Initial soil moisture deficit (fraction)||0 | | |Initial soil moisture deficit (fraction)||0 |
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| − | |colspan = 2|The dimensions of the rainwater cistern can be placed into the fields: | + | !colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Curves |
| | + | |colspan = 2|The Curves table is designed to accommodate ponds of roughly conical dimensions. A rainwater cistern is usually cuboid or cylindrical in shape, so that the area (m<sup>2</sup>) will remain the same throughout the depth. Instead, the dimensions of the rainwater cistern can be placed into the fields: |
| | #Bottom elevation (m) | | #Bottom elevation (m) |
| | #Maximum depth (m) | | #Maximum depth (m) |
| | #Initial water depth (m) | | #Initial water depth (m) |
| − | The Curves table is designed to accommodate ponds of roughly conical dimensions. A rainwater cistern is usually cuboid or cylindrical in shape, so that the area (m<sup>2</sup>) will remain the same throughout the depth.
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| | [[category:modeling]] | | [[category:modeling]] |