[GRASS-user] how to calculate volume of water stored in water storage with r.sim.water?

[Anna Petrášová]

On Mon, Jul 31, 2023 at 11:42 PM bonushenricus <bonushenricus76 at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi Anna
> I too immediately thought it was enough to compute it for the final step
> of the simulation,
> but I noticed that the same slope, same ditches, same rainfall, for two
> reservoirs at the same location, same length along a contour, but different
> width and depth, at the final step of the simulation the water depth was
> always 30 cm, I went to read the article
> Mitasova, Helena, Chris Thaxton, Jaroslav Hofierka, Richard McLaughlin,
> Amber Moore, e Lubos Mitas. «Path Sampling Method for Modeling Overland
> Water Flow, Sediment Transport, and Short Term Terrain Evolution in Open
> Source GIS». In *Developments in Water Science*, 55:1479–90. Elsevier,
> 2004. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0167-5648(04)80159-X
> where I read the Saint-Venant equation. I am an agricultural technician
> and geographer unfortunately ignorant of hydrological calculations and
> serious mathematics, and I understood, looking at the equation, that the
> water depth is the depth of overland flow = rainfall exces - water flow.
> So the final 30 cm should not be understood as accumulated water, but as
> the blade of water that was added at that precise moment.
> Isn't my interpretation right?
>

No, it should be actual water depth.  I didn't understand the discrepancy
you are describing?

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> Il giorno lun, 31/07/2023 alle 14.34 -0400, Anna Petrášová ha scritto:
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> On Sun, Jul 30, 2023 at 6:01 AM bonushenricus <bonushenricus76 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
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> Hi
> From r.sim.water, how can I calculate the volume of water stored in
> small water storages placed along a relief and connected to ditches?
> In this article https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agwat.2023.108398 these
> Italian researchers with r.sim.water manage did this calculation, but I
> do not understand how. With a calculation at different times on
> discharge at the entrance to the water storage?
> I tried to contact them, but they did not reply.
> Thanks!
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> Hi,
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> volume would be simple depth times cell size squared for a certain
> selected area. I would compute it for the final step of the simulation, I
> am not sure what is the purpose of summing it for different time steps.
> Perhaps you could clarify a little bit?
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> Anna
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