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"@context": "http://schema.org/", "@type": "WebPage", "additionalType": "Project", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center/science/fema-surface-water-model-viewer", "headline": "FEMA Surface-Water Model Viewer", "datePublished": "May 29, 2018", "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Kristine Blickenstaff", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/staff-profiles/kristine-blickenstaff" } ], "description": [ { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The USGS Texas Water Science Center is developing a web based surface water model viewer to host models that are of interest to FEMA." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "Once a model is upload into the framework, we will be able to expose the model inputs and outputs in a format that can be used for web-based viewing. This format may include NetCDF, or other, well-known and highly-scalable storage formats. To support the ability to run scenarios using uploaded models, the framework will have capabilities to write model input files, based on modifications made through the web interface." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "This work has sparked interest in the ability to build a similar system to display surface water model data leveraging the framework in production. At this time, there has been limited work in this arena but a funded effort to better understand the details of these models and what would be needed to develop similar system would benefit the community of surface water modelers and the agencies that manage these products around the Nation." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "The development of a generic surface water model framework will be a critical component of a web-based surface water model explorer. This framework will be generic in the sense that it will not drive a specific type or version of a numerical surface water model. Rather, the framework will be able to ingest several types of surface water models (hydraulic, hydrologic, operations), including specific implementations of these types of models, such HEC-HMS, Riverware, HEC-RAS, HSPF, SWAT, etc." }, { "@type": "TextObject", "text": "In 2016, the USGS Texas Water Science Center developed new capabilities to help manage, view and explore grid-based, numerical groundwater model data using NetCDF file format and THREDDS serving capacity. This suite of tools allowed for a new web application to be created that readily consumes groundwater model data into a single framework, able to view and explore these model data via web-client for the first time within USGS." } ], "funder": { "@type": "Organization", "name": "Oklahoma-Texas Water Science Center", "url": "https://www.usgs.gov/centers/oklahoma-texas-water-science-center" }, "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Methods and Analysis" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Information Systems" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Science Technology" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Energy" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Environmental Health" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Water" }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Geology" } ]
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