Hi! I would to run a continuous simulation. Could the time series have any lenght, or is there a maximum length that can not be go over?
I thank you in advance.
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There is no report file limit for continuous simulation, though I was not able to graph more than 1000 years in SWMM5 - i hope this helps.
I have some blogs here about continuous simulation
http://www.swmm5.net/search/label/Inside%20SWMM5
Frankly, no questions are stupid. So don't worry about questions. In answer your question - the external rainfall file must not have been exactly the right format or there was something odd about the rainfall time series. Here is error 309 which implies that it was able to read the file but not make a binary file. Good that you were able to run it as a time series.
ERROR 309: error writing to binary results file - this happens during the simulation process and not the reading of the rainfall file.
Sorry, my error is
not 309.
This is an example of external file that I use, but it doesn't run.
The user defined defined rainfall file should look like this
;Station_ID Month Day Hour Minute Precip
1 2000 9 5 0 0 0.494
1 2000 9 5 0 15 0.507
1 2000 9 5 0 30 0.525
1 2000 9 5 0 45 0.475
1 2000 9 5 1 00 0.470
1 2000 9 5 1 15 0.454
1 2000 9 5 1 30 0.449
1 2000 9 5 1 45 0.415
1 2000 9 5 2 00 0.390
1 2000 9 5 2 15 0.396
1 2000 9 5 2 30 0.364
1 2000 9 5 2 45 0.320
1 2000 9 5 3 00 0.283
But, what is the difference between rainfall file and time series file?
When I introduce a file in rain gage window and in time series editor, the file is the same?
Another question: my error is 319, about the rainfall interface file. How do I create it?
Thanks a lot for you availability.
Error 318 is a problem with your rainfall format or ERR_RAIN_FILE_FORMAT
If you send me the model you are trying to run and data associated with the model I can help - send it to robert.dickinson@gmail.com
A rainfall file can be time series file or the rainfall gage can use the external file directly. In effect they are the same.
I deleted your two time series that were not used and now it nuns. Were you planning on using those time series?
Those are only two example of time series... They aren't the real rainfall series that i created.
One other comment - you had days in the time step dialog = the external rainfall reads correctly but you did not have a valid simulation due to the 5 day long time steps = use a 15 minute time step and it will work better