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Hydrographs can be read into WMS and displayed in icon form at the appropriate basin or outlet.

For an HEC-1 analysis, a TAPE22 file can be read into WMS. Any number of hydrograph sets (TAPE22 files) may be read into WMS and displayed in a Hydrograph Plot window. The name of the TAPE22 file is given as the solution file when running HEC-1 from the HEC-1 menu.

For a TR-20 analysis the GRAPHICS file, which stores discharge hydrographs, can be read into WMS. This options is only available when running the version of TR-20 distributed with WMS. This file is specified as part of the "all other files" prefix when running TR-20 from within WMS, and always has the three letter extension of THY.

For the NFF and rational analysis programs hydrographs can be computed from dimensionless unit hydrographs applied to the computed peak discharges. These hydrographs are automatically stored and displayed.

A hydrograph can also be imported from a text file or copied from the clipboard for a basin or outlet and then used to calibrate computed hydrographs or used as input to the detention basin calculator.

Hydrographs are displayed in a Hydrograph Plot Window by using the Select Hydrograph tool and selecting the Open Hydrograph Plot command in the Display menu. Multiple hydrographs may be selected and overlaid in a plot window at the same time, and several different display options can be used while examining hydrographs by right-clicking in the plot window.