TSTool_UserManual_10-21-00

• Title: TSTool User's Manual - 10.21.00
• Description: User's Manual for version 10.21.00
• Decision Support - Doc Type: Software Documentation
• Date: 7/14/2013
• DSS Category: DMI Utilities
• Contract/PO #: C153966A
• Prepared By: Riverside Technology, Inc.

TSTool Documentation
Introduction - 6
Input Type Category Description
NWSRFS_FS5Files Binary file
database
NWSRFS binary FS5Files preprocessor and
processed database.
RiverWare Single file University of Colorado Cent er for Advanced Decision
Support for Water and Environmental Systems
(CADSWES) RiverWare model data format.
SHEF Single file Standard Hydrologic Exchange Format, a common
data format used by United States government
agencies. Only limited support is prov ided.
StateCU Single file State of Colorado consumptive use model time series
input and output file formats.
StateCUB Binary file
database
State of Colorado consumptive use model binary
output file.
StateMod Single file State of Colorado StateMod model time series input
and output file format s .
StateModB Binary file
database
State of Colorado StateMod model output binary file.
USGS NWIS Rdb Single file USGS NWIS RDB format files.
WaterML Single file WaterML format file.

An example of a time series i dentifier for a monthly streamflow time series in HydroBase is:

09010500.USGS.Streamflow.Month~HydroBase

The same time series for a USGS NWIS daily streamflow file might be identified using:

09010500.USGS.Streamflow.Month~UsgsNwisRdb ~C:\temp \09010500.t xt

In th ese example s , the optional scenario (fifth part) and sequence number are not used. TSID string s can
be saved in a command file or time series product description file to indicate the time series to process .
The TSID with input information allows TSTool to determine how to access the time series and is useful
for managing time series. The TSTool GUI typically handles creation of all time series identifiers;
howe ver, command files can be edited with a text editor . The path to files can be absolut e or relative to
the command file. The latter is recommended to improve portability of files between computers.

TSTool only shows the input type and input name parts of the identifier when editing read commands.
There are cases where two time series ide ntifiers will be the same except for the input type and name. In
these cases, an alias should be assigned when reading the time series and the alias used in later commands
(see the next section).

2.3 Using Time Series Alias es

Because time series identif iers are somewhat cumbersome to work with, TSTool allows a time series alias
to be used instead. For example, the following command illustrates how a HydroBase time series can be
read and associated with an alias:

ReadTimeSeries(Alias=”09010500”,TSI D=”09010500.USGS.Streamflow.Month~HydroBase”)

The following older syntax was phased out in TSTool version 10.00.00, and is automatically converted to
the above syntax when a command file is read:
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