Some of the EC stations have missing data, what do I have to do to generate EC initial conditions?
For real-time runs there is a maximum of 25 locations in the interior of the Delta and 3 boundary locations (Martinez, San Joaquin at Vernalis, and Sacramento at Hood) that are used by the scripts that create EC initial conditions. The list of all these locations is in the chanlist.inp file. The opstart.py script was designed to read all of the input paths, and if data is missing for either part or all of the initialization period, it will ignore these locations. Make sure that between 20 and 30 stations appear to have EC data for at least half of the initialization period. In other words, it is OK to have missing data in a path, just make sure that there is data for around 50% of the time in 20 to 30 stations. If they don’t, please make a note of the lack of data and consider starting your HYDRO and QUAL runs earlier during a time when there was more data.
