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Open Water Data in Space and Time
Author(s) -
Maidment David R.
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
jawra journal of the american water resources association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.957
H-Index - 105
eISSN - 1752-1688
pISSN - 1093-474X
DOI - 10.1111/1752-1688.12436
Subject(s) - interoperability , geospatial analysis , streamflow , environmental science , water resources , data sharing , service (business) , hydrology (agriculture) , environmental resource management , meteorology , computer science , business , geography , world wide web , engineering , remote sensing , drainage basin , medicine , ecology , cartography , alternative medicine , geotechnical engineering , pathology , marketing , biology
An Open Water Data Initiative has been established by the federal government to enhance water information sharing across the United States (U.S.) using standardized web services for geospatial and temporal data. In a parallel effort, the National Weather Service has established a new National Water Center on the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama, at which a new National Water Model starts operations in June 2016, to continually simulate and forecast streamflow discharge throughout the continental U.S. These two developments support the interoperability of streamflow and hydrologic information in time and space from modeled and observed sources through the use of open standards to share water information.