River Nodes

River nodes are automatically inserted, but may also be added manually by using the ‘Add’ button under the River nodes ribbon in the Map view.

There are several types of River nodes in the Basin module:

·         Regular river nodes are inserted automatically in all confluences and diversions (including to/from ‘Connections’).

·         Catchment nodes and Reservoir nodes are inserted automatically when Catchments and Reservoirs, respectively, are added to the River net­work.

·         ReservoirCatchment nodes are inserted automatically when Reservoirs are located on Catchment nodes.

Other River node types are created when a regular river node is given addi­tional properties such as Priority or Routing River nodes.

In the River nodes properties dialogue, three types of information can be specified:

·         Flow loss time series

·         Flow capacity time series

·         Bifurcation type and associated data

If one or more Water users are connected to a River node, the node is auto­matically defined as a Priority node and additional information must be speci­fied in the Priority node properties dialogue (cf. Section 6.4).