HPN Calculation Fix - OCLO
Adjusting Rates Calculation for HPN Display
Purpose:
Fixing the precipitation rate calculation.Tasks:
Adjusting Rates Calculation For HPN Display
- Left-click on the Open Perspective menu and select Localization.
- From the File Browser, double-click on CAVE, double-click on Style Rules, then double-click on gridImageryStyleRules.xml (Fig. 1).
- Right-click and hold on BASE and select Copy To, then select User (username) (Fig. 2).
- Double-click on the new USER file and make sure to select "Source" at the bottom of new window.
- Locate line 3981 in the xml code and insert "*0.00027778" immediately after the second instance on "in/hr" (see image for clarification) (Fig. 3).
- This adjustment is made to account for a calculation error of a factor of 3600 in the rain rate. You can verify this if you compare the 15 min rain rate to the 1 hour accumulated precipitation.
- Left-click the Save button in the top left corner.
- Left-click on the D2D button in the top right to toggle back to the D2D perspective.