Section 1: Information about USGS rivers where real-time discharges are available: template from "fix/nos_ofs/nos.cbofs.river.ctl" 34 9 1.0 !! NIJ NRIVERS : number of model locations (NIJ) and number of USGS river stations (NRIVERS) RiverID USGS_ID NWS_ID Q_min Q_max Q_mean T_min T_max T_mean Q_Flag TS_Flag River_Station_Name 1 01014000 XXXXX USGS 28.6 2520.2 258.93 2 14.3 8.78 1 1 St John River MA 2 01021000 XXXXX USGS 25.66 353.96 78.22 2 14.3 8.78 1 1 St.Croix MA 3 01021500 XXXXX USGS 6.91 75.61 26.87 2 16.8 8.89 1 1 Machias MA 4 01034500 XXXXX USGS 96.28 1667.86 366.44 2 17.6 9.29 1 1 Penobscot MA 5 01049265 XXXXX USGS 50.12 1823.6 278.8 3.6 19.6 11.82 1 1 Kennebec MA 6 01059000 XXXXX USGS 58.33 1653.7 184.69 3.6 19.6 11.82 1 1 Androscoggin MA 7 01066000 XXXXX USGS 17.44 419.09 82.85 3.6 19.6 11.82 1 1 Saco MA 8 01100000 XXXXX USGS 33.98 758.89 190.32 3 21.2 11.58 1 1 Merrimack MA 9 011055566 XXXXX USGS 0.76 17.33 4.48 3 21.2 11.58 1 1 Neponset MA Section 2: information of ROMS grids to specify river discharges GRID_ID I/Xpos J/Ypos DIR FLAG RiverID_Q Q_Scale RiverID_TS TS_Scale River_Basin_Name 1 890 747 1 3 1 -0.333 1 1 St. John River MA 2 891 747 1 3 1 -0.333 1 1 St. John River MA 3 892 747 1 3 1 -0.333 1 1 St. John River MA 4 788 760 1 3 2 -0.250 2 1 V - St. Croix MA 5 789 760 1 3 2 -0.250 2 1 V - St. Croix MA 6 790 760 1 3 2 -0.250 2 1 V - St. Croix MA 7 791 760 1 3 2 -0.250 2 1 V - St. Croix MA 8 777 742 0 3 3 0.200 3 1 U - St. Croix MA 9 777 743 0 3 3 0.200 3 1 U - St. Croix MA 10 777 744 0 3 3 0.200 3 1 U - St. Croix MA 11 777 745 0 3 3 0.200 3 1 U - St. Croix MA 12 777 746 0 3 3 0.200 3 1 U - St. Croix MA 13 715 733 1 3 4 -0.333 4 1 Machias MA 14 716 733 1 3 4 -0.333 4 1 Machias MA 15 717 733 1 3 4 -0.333 4 1 Machias MA 16 557 768 0 3 5 -0.250 5 1 Penobscot MA 17 557 769 0 3 5 -0.250 5 1 Penobscot MA 18 557 770 0 3 5 -0.250 5 1 Penobscot MA 19 557 771 0 3 5 -0.250 5 1 Penobscot MA 20 404 732 1 3 6 -0.250 6 1 Kennebec MA & Androscoggin MA 21 405 732 1 3 6 -0.250 6 1 Kennebec MA & Androscoggin MA 22 406 732 1 3 6 -0.250 6 1 Kennebec MA & Androscoggin MA 23 407 732 1 3 6 -0.250 6 1 Kennebec MA & Androscoggin MA 24 320 715 0 3 7 0.333 7 1 Saco MA 25 320 716 0 3 7 0.333 7 1 Saco MA 26 320 717 0 3 7 0.333 7 1 Saco MA 27 226 650 0 3 8 0.333 8 1 Merrimack MA 28 226 651 0 3 8 0.333 8 1 Merrimack MA 29 226 652 0 3 8 0.333 8 1 Merrimack MA 30 163 591 0 3 9 0.200 9 1 Neponset MA 31 163 592 0 3 9 0.200 9 1 Neponset MA 32 163 593 0 3 9 0.200 9 1 Neponset MA 33 163 594 0 3 9 0.200 9 1 Neponset MA 34 163 595 0 3 9 0.200 9 1 Neponset MA PARAMETER DEFINITION: NIJ : Number of model grids to specify river discharges NRIVERS : Number of USGS river observing stations DELT : Time interval in hours for output time series RiverID : Serial Identification number of USGS River USGS_ID : USGS river Identification number NWS_ID : NWS Identification number for USGS river GRID_ID : Serial Identification number for Model grid location to specify river input I/Xpos : XI-position of model grid at RHO-points J/Ypos : ETA-position of model grid at RHO-points DIR : River runoff direction. 0:along x/xi-axis; 1:along y/eta-axis FLAG : River runoff trace flag. 0: all tracers (T & S) are off; 1: only T is on; 2: only S is on; 3: both T and S are on RiverID_Q : RiverID in Section 1 which is used to specify river discharge at the corresponding model grid RiverID_TS: RiverID in Section 1 which is used to specify river temperature and salinity at the corresponding model grid Q_Scale : Scaling factor of river discharge at the model grid TS_scale : Scaling factor of river tempature and salinity at corresponding model grid Q_min : Minimum discharge value of the river Q_mean : Average discharge value of the river Q_max : Maximum discharge value of the river T_min : Minimum temperature value of the river T_mean : Average temperature value of the river T_max : Maximum temperature value of the river Q_Flag : 0:use climatological river discharges data(daily mean); 1:use real-time river discharge observations TS_Flag : 0:use climatological temperature data(daily mean); 1:use real-time river temperature observations River_Basin_Name: Name of Rivers or river basins River_Station_Name: Name of Rivers or stations