Welcome to the Rana documentation!
Welcome to the Rana documentation, your comprehensive guide to using our platform for hydrological analysis. This manual provides step-by-step instructions, best practices, and troubleshooting tips to help you get the most out of Rana’s features.
Who is this manual for
Hydrologists & GIS Professionals using Rana for data analysis and modelling.
Researchers & Engineers working with geospatial datasets, flood modelling, and environmental simulations.
Project Managers & Decision-Makers seeking insights from hydrological and GIS data.
Developers & Data Scientists integrating Rana with external tools and workflows.
How to use this manual
This guide is designed to help you navigate Rana’s interface and make full use of its features through step-by-step instructions, annotated screenshots, and short video tutorials.
Use this manual to:
Understand core concepts like publications, hydrodynamic modeling, and data versioning
Follow complete workflows for modeling and data sharing
Quickly find solutions via how to videos on the Tutorials page
Tutorials and Getting Started
User Manuals
- Rana online
- Rana Desktop Client
- Introduction
- Modelling
- Simulating
- Analysing simulation results
- Load results as WMS layers
- Download results
- Load and visualise results
- Water depth and water level rasters
- Total discharge crossing a line
- Plot time series of flow variables
- Side views of models and results
- Time aggregates of simulation results
- Water balance of an area of choice
- Upstream and downstream catchments for any given location
- Rana Live
- HCC Management
- Scenario Archive
- Rana for developers
Technical Reference
- Schematisations, Models & Simulations
- Schematisation objects
- Initials, forcings and events
- Grid
- Flow
- Simulation settings
- Water quality and the transport of substances
- Rana simulation results
Problem solving and support
Release Notes
Literature