Application of the Markov Process Rainfall Model

Posted by Jason Lillywhite

If you have visited our Model Library lately, you might have noticed that we have a nice little example model that demonstrates the use of a Markov process to simulate daily rainfall. You need to specify some key statistical inputs that have some basis on historic data. How do you develop these inputs? How do you know if the Markov model is realistic? I thought it would be helpful to show how this simple example might be applied in a real-world project and try to answer those questions.

*Note that I made changes to the results on 5/20/2016 after I used GoldSim's optimization function to better calibrate the rate variability.

Automatically Export GoldSim Plots as Image Files

Posted by Jason Lillywhite

Over the last few years, some users have asked us for a feature that automatically exports images of plots in a GoldSim model. This is useful if you want to quickly update many plots used for a report but it is currently not a feature supported by GoldSim. Luckily, there is a fairly straightforward workaround that involves the help of a macro enabled Excel spreadsheet. In this post, I will walk through the steps to build this functionality using a simple example model. Using the simple example that I've created, you just run the model and images of all the plots of exported results are saved immediately.