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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

Getting Profile Output in a 2D Area

Written by Christopher Goodell, P.E., D.WRE  |  WEST Consultants 
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Back in September 2015, I wrote an article on how to extractflow data from a transect in a 2D area.   This was a round-about way of getting flow flux data out of RAS Mapper.  Back then the beta version of HEC-RAS 5.0 was somewhat limited in the ways data could be extracted from a 2D area.  In the final release of Version5.0, you may have noticed in the bottom left-hand corner of RASMapper, there is a very unassuming tab called “Profiles Lines”. 


Profile Lines are another way of extracting linear data from a 2D area, only these are extracted longitudinally, like a profile plot.  Here’s how it works: