Appendix B - Visual Object Properties
| Name | User-assigned rain gage name. |
| X-Coordinate | Horizontal location of the rain gage on the Study Area Map. If left blank then the rain gage will not appear on the map. |
| Y-Coordinate | Vertical location of the rain gage on the Study Area Map. If left blank then the rain gage will not appear on the map. |
| Description | Click the ellipsis button (or press Enter) to edit an optional description of the rain gage. |
| Tag | Optional label used to categorize or classify the rain gage. |
| Rain Format | Format in which the rain data are supplied: INTENSITY: each rainfall value is an average rate in inches/hour (or mm/hour) over the recording interval, VOLUME: each rainfall value is the volume of rain that fell in the recording interval (in inches or millimeters), CUMULATIVE: each rainfall value represents the cumulative rainfall that has occurred since the start of the last series of non-zero values (in inches or millimeters). |
| Rain Interval | Recording time interval between gage readings in either decimal hours or hours: minutes format. |
| Snow Catch Factor | Factor that corrects gage readings for snowfall. |
| Data Source | Source of rainfall data; either TIMESERIES for user-supplied time series data or FILE for an external data file. |
| TIME SERIES | |
| - Series Name | Name of time series with rainfall data if Data Source selection was TIMESERIES; leave blank otherwise (double-click to edit the series). |
| DATA FILE | |
| - File Name | Name of external file containing rainfall data. |
| - Station No. | Recording gage station number. |
| - Rain Units | Depth units (IN or MM) for rainfall values in the file. |