Adjusting Rates Calculation for HPN Display

Purpose:

Fixing the precipitation rate calculation.

Tasks:

Adjusting Rates Calculation For HPN Display

  1. Left-click on the Open Perspective menu and select Localization.
  2. From the File Browser, double-click on CAVE, double-click on Style Rules, then double-click on gridImageryStyleRules.xml (Fig. 1).
  3. Right-click and hold on BASE and select Copy To, then select User (username) (Fig. 2).
  4. Double-click on the new USER file and make sure to select "Source" at the bottom of new window.
  5. 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).
    1. 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.
  6. Left-click the Save button in the top left corner.
  7. Left-click on the D2D button in the top right to toggle back to the D2D perspective.