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|+A RWH cistern as a storage element
|+A RWH cistern as a storage element (key parameters)
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!colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Stage Storage
!colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Stage Storage
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|Name||Important to have a unique name, to associate with the subcatchment (harvesting area)
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|Storage type||No removal
|Storage type||No removal
|Catchment||In many scenarios this will be the roof area, delineated on the map as a 'subcatchment'.
|Catchment||In many scenarios this will be the roof area, delineated on the map as a 'subcatchment'.
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|?||Lined
|Lined/unlined||Lined
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|Underlying soil||''Any:This doesn't matter for RWH cistern systems''
|Underlying soil||''Any:This doesn't matter for RWH cistern systems''
|Initial soil moisture deficit (fraction)||0
|Initial soil moisture deficit (fraction)||0
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|colspan = 2|The dimensions of the rainwater cistern can be placed into the fields:
!colspan = "2" style="background: darkcyan; color: white; align = center"|Curves
|colspan = 2|The Curves table is designed to accommodate ponds of roughly conical dimensions. A rainwater cistern is usually cuboid or cylindrical in shape, so that the area (m<sup>2</sup>) will remain the same throughout the depth. Instead, the dimensions of the rainwater cistern can be placed into the fields:
#Bottom elevation (m)
#Bottom elevation (m)
#Maximum depth (m)
#Maximum depth (m)
#Initial water depth (m)
#Initial water depth (m)
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[[category:modeling]]
[[category:modeling]]