Calculation template for the unit-scale framework for designing step-pool sequences

<p>This is the calculation&nbsp;template for the manuscript titled &quot;A unit-scale framework for designing step-pool sequences&quot; by Chendi Zhang,&nbsp;Marwan A. Hassan,&nbsp;Matteo Saletti,&nbsp;Andr&eacute; E. Zimmermann, Mengzhen Xu and Zhaoyin Wang. The design method described in the manuscript is specifically for river restoration using artificial step-pool sequence (Zhang et al., 2018, 2020; Zimmermann et al., 2020). Version 1.0 of the calculation template was applied to a&nbsp;total of 21 artificial step-pools built in the Maso di Spinelle River in Italy (Lenzi 2002; Lenzi and Comiti 2003; Comiti et al. 2009).&nbsp;A natural step-pool sequence including 20 units in the Erlenback in Switzerland (Golly et al., 2019) was used in the Version 2.0 of the template.&nbsp;The instructions are included in the file. With changes in the inputs, this template can also be used for other cases where design for artificial step-pools is needed. The flow competence estimation method (Richardson and Carling, 2021) has been incorporated in the Version 2.1.</p>