Should we drop topo variables that use huc watersheds?

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Should we drop topo variables that use huc watersheds? #32

Closed dschwilk closed 8 years ago

dschwilk commented 8 years ago

Other than helping to define our geographic extent, I don't think the huc watersheds are useful. So I think this implies ignoring relelev_shed.

Just opening this issue to record this suggestion.

hpoulos commented 8 years ago

Right. They are just the analysis areas of extent. That is what I basically ended up using except for relelev_shed which was a residual layer that we agreed on last summer. I think it's pretty useless.

dschwilk commented 8 years ago

With good ridge definitions and flow accumulation, we won't need these as we will have DEM derived vars rather than these arbitrary ones. I can close this when we check the new (final!) grids)

dschwilk commented 8 years ago

OK, relelev shed is now gone from topo grids