Tool NameFlow Accumulation
Tool IDflow_accumulation
Library IDta_hydrology
Version1.0
Author(s)O.Conrad (c) 2019

Description

This is a simple to use one step tool to derive flow accumulation from a Digital Terrain Model. It includes a preprocessing followed by a call to 'Flow Accumulation (Top-Down) exposing only the most important options.

Parameters

NameTypeIdentifierDescriptionConstraints
Input
Elevationgrid, inputDEM
Output
Flow Accumulationgrid, outputTCAThe flow accumulation, a.k.a. Total Catchment Area (TCA)
Specific Catchment Areagrid, output, optionalSCA
Options
PreprocessingchoicePREPROCESSINGAvailable Choices:
[0] Fill Sinks (Wang & Liu)
[1] Sink Removal
Default: 0
Flow RoutingchoiceFLOW_ROUTINGAvailable Choices:
[0] Deterministic 8
[1] Rho 8
[2] Braunschweiger Reliefmodell
[3] Deterministic Infinity
[4] Multiple Flow Direction
[5] Multiple Triangular Flow Direction
[6] Multiple Maximum Downslope Gradient Based Flow Direction
Default: 0