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Welcome to the Automated Rated Curve (ARC) wiki! Here, we will give you step-by-step guidance on how to use and abuse the ARC tool. For each step in the process we have a test case set up for the Shields River watershed in Montana using the Group on Earth Observation (GEO) Global Water Sustainability (GEOGlOWS) European Centre for Medium Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF) Streamflow Service. These data can be downloaded here. Make sure to follow the set-up instructions in the repositories README before proceeding. The repository contains example_step1.py, example_step2.py, example_step3.py, and example_step4.py that correspond to the four steps below. These example scripts can be found in this directory. Use these example scripts when testing functionality out on your own. Enjoy!

1. Formatting Streamflow Data for ARC
2. Processing ARC Geospatial Inputs
3. Running ARC and Looking at ARC Outputs
4. Creating Inputs for the Flood Inudation Surface Topology (FIST) Flood Inundation Mapping Software

Here is also a breakdown on the two methodologies employed to estimate bathymetry in ARC.

Here is a breakdown of all the arguments found in the input file that tell ARC how to operate.

ARC can be used with the Curve2Flood tool to create flood inundation maps and/or estimate topobathymetric profiles. Here is an example of how ARC and Curve2Flood can be used to simulate flood inundation maps.