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Clarify distinction between flowpaths and waterbodies. #21

Closed dblodgett-usgs closed 4 years ago

dblodgett-usgs commented 4 years ago

Currently, the documentation of hygeo describes waterbodies in some detail but doesn't really get into the flowpath catchment realization.

I'm now realizing that this is a major oversight that needs to be corrected.

Initially, we have a 1:1 correspondence between flowpaths and waterbodies -- we could even drop waterbodies from the mix all together if hydrologic routing attributes can be attached to flowpaths.

As we go forward, we will want to use flowpaths as a way to handle hydrologic locations along waterbodies providing the tie points between the linear catchment-realization and hydrodynamic model representations of waterbodies.

dblodgett-usgs commented 4 years ago

Need to create a diagram that clarifies how this works.