Example Notebook: Compare Tanana D3D to Experiment

[ssolson]

Create a notebook that demonstrates comparing Delft-3D simulations to experimental river data.

Plan of attack:

1. Use d3d module to plot Tanana river simulations
2. Plot experimental data
3. Plot experimental data using alpha shapes (see #61 for example)

[browniea]

3. Alpha shapes refences: https://github.com/MHKiT-Software/MHKiT-Python/issues/61

[ssolson]

Notes from meeting: Mapping out transects on QGIS to get coordinates. Then use coordinates to plot the experimental data using MHKiT

[ssolson]

Goal for next week:

• Create a draft PR that pulls in ADCP data and GPS data.
• PR associate GPS data to the Xarray ADCP data in a single XARRAY object

[ssolson]

Emily can recreate the transect using VMT. VMT is an outdated Matlab 2015 program that uses the output from WinRiver to combine the ADCP data. Currently, we are considering using the Matlab version of this to move forward with the paper but we will try to write some MHKiT code this week to see how far we can get. An additional issue when using the raw data is that the number of GPS and backscatter data bins differ (roughly 52 scatter points to 60 GPS points recorded). Using WinRiver correctly combines this data.

Steps for this week:

• Reach out to James for insight into WinRiver ASCII output (we want to parse the headers from the output of the WinRiver into python but need help understanding the format)
• Share the 2010 with me
• Create the same transect using D3D for Thursday

[ssolson]

• Clean up D3D bottom data in contour
• work slightly more with 2010 data to see if can get GPS data working (see if can do all steps from Matlab -> winriver- python , now becomes all python). if not then switch to more recent data.
• follow up with James

• 195 is used in this process but may come after the paper

[ssolson]

Goal to get draft paper onto box this week Next steps after that is to work on alpha shapes