Washington State Isopluvial Selector

Engenious Systems is making available a GIS based application that will enable users working in Washington State to visually select any location to retrieve rainfall precipitations.  The program tracks mouse location by UTM coordinates or Longitude and Latitude.  It supports the following design event precipitations:

24 hr Mean Ann	24 hr 500 yr	24 hr 100 yr	24 hr 50 yr	24 hr 25 yr	24 hr 10 yr	24 hr 2 yr	24 hr 6 mo
2 hr Mean Ann	2 hr 500 yr	2 hr 100 yr	2 hr 50 yr	2 hr 25 yr	2 hr 10 yr	2 hr 2yr	Yearly Mean Ann

WashISO™ can track a single precipitation grid at a time when panning across the map, however, all grids are active when a project location is selected.  That means a single location will report back any combination of precipitation events.  The second tab titled "Precip Config" allows users to select the events that are reported. 

There must be a minimum of one grid selected in order to produce a report.  The report is designed for direct access into StormShed3G (works with StormShed and StormShed2G too).  Selecting the presents a dialog that enables selection of an existing StormShed3G™ project a simple table that is tab delimited, so that the values can easily be cut and pasted into Microsoft Word® or Excel® .

When exporting to StormShed, the WashISO™ replaces all values in the project file with the selected precipitation events.  Since StormShed requires the 2 year 24 hr event for sheet flow computations, that event is automatically included in the selection.

Along the bottom of the application window is a status line that displays the UTM coordinates (or Longitude and Latitude) along with the height at the location of the mouse. The current zoom scale is displayed as well as the mouse mode and grid that is being tracked.

When a location is selected, the precipitation at the grid that is being tracked is displayed along the top tool bar.

Selecting a location is as simple as selecting the button on the toolbar and clicking on the desired map location.  The program will only support a single location, so clicking on several locations simply moves the selection point. 

In support of the free mapping services that enable a richer image of your geographical site (such as Virtual Earth or Google Maps) this program has a manual location selector that allows users to enter a longitude and latitude (ddd.dddddd format). 

Once the coordinates are entered, WashISO will collate the data for the report.  The program is designed as a support program for StormShed or any other application that requires design precipitations in Washington State.  There is no memory of project locations beyond the last location selected between program sessions.

Evaluations are available from our installation page.  Pricing information is available from our pricing page.  Evaluations are limited to the 24hr 25yr precipitation grid.