AGU24 brought together the world’s leading minds in Earth and space sciences. CIROH participated actively, showcasing advances in water prediction, modeling techniques and many more technologies.

Presentations and Posters 📊​

The conference provided an excellent platform for CIROH researchers to present their groundbreaking work. Our team delivered impactful presentations and poster sessions highlighting CIROH’s innovative work, including advancements in water prediction systems and community water modeling.

These sessions sparked thought-provoking discussions and fostered collaborations with other researchers. For those who missed it, posters and presentation slides are now available here. Feel free to explore these materials and share your thoughts. 📝

Contribute Your Posters or Presentations!​

If any CIROH researchers would like to add their own posters or presentations to this repository, please feel free to send a pull request (PR). We welcome contributions and encourage collaboration!

Photo Gallery 📸​

We captured some unforgettable moments from AGU 2024. From vibrant sessions to meaningful conversations at our booth, here’s a glimpse:

The Community NextGen framework has seen significant advancements in November 2024, with major updates across multiple components and exciting new resources for users. Let's dive into the key developments that are making hydrologic modeling more accessible and powerful than ever.

🎉 NGIAB-CloudInfra v1.3.0: A Major Milestone​

The release of NGIAB-CloudInfra v1.3.0 marks a significant evolution in our Docker-based solution. This version introduces several groundbreaking improvements:

• Integration with CIROH-UA's forked repositories of ngen and t-route
• Full compatibility with the latest hydrofabric v2.2
• New sample input data AWI-007
• Enhanced visualization capabilities through the NGIAB Visualizer
• Streamlined CI/CD pipeline with a unified Dockerfile
• TEEHR integration for improved evaluation capabilities

📝 New End-to-End Workflow Guide​

We're excited to announce a comprehensive new end-to-end workflow video tutorial for NGIAB! This resource walks users through the entire process, making it easier than ever to get started with NextGen modeling. The tutorial is available in our documentation and provides step-by-step guidance for both new and experienced users.

🔄 Infrastructure Updates​

NGIAB-HPCInfra​

The Singularity-based solution for high-performance computing has been updated to maintain parity with the Docker implementation, including:

• Updated repositories alignment
• New sample data compatibility
• Enhanced documentation

Data Processing Tools​

• NGIAB-data-preprocess v3.1.2: Major update ensuring seamless compatibility with hydrofabric v2.2
• ngen-datastream: Significant improvements with 22 new commits enhancing data handling capabilities

🌟 New Features​

Hydrofabric v2.2​

The latest hydrofabric data model brings improved spatial representation and data organization. This update enhances the framework's ability to represent complex hydrologic systems accurately.

Repository Updates​

• The NextGen Model Framework now operates from CIROH-UA's main branch
• T-route implementation has been updated to use the specialized datastream branch
• Both updates provide better integration and enhanced functionality within the NGIAB ecosystem

What's Next?​

These November updates represent our ongoing commitment to improving the NextGen framework's accessibility and capabilities. With the new workflow video and documentation in place, we're making it easier than ever for the hydrologic modeling community to leverage these powerful tools.

We encourage users to:

1. Explore the new v1.3.0 release
2. Watch the end-to-end workflow video
3. Test out the updated data preprocess and NGIAB tools
4. Provide feedback on your experience

Stay tuned for more updates as we continue to enhance and expand the NextGen In A Box ecosystem!

For detailed information about these updates, visit our repositories:

• NGIAB-CloudInfra
• NGIAB-HPCInfra
• ngen-datastream
• NGIAB-data-preprocess

The 2024 CIROH Science Meeting was a huge success, bringing together researchers, federal partners, and consortium members both in person and virtually. We're excited to share the valuable resources from this year's meeting with the wider CIROH community.

Slides and pictures from the various sessions, keynotes, and the Federal Town Hall have all been uploaded to a shared drive for easy access. You can find links to these materials here: Access the Shared Drive with Presentation Slides

Several important historical and ongoing National Water Model (NWM) datasets are now available on Google Cloud BigQuery, which makes them queryable through SQL using Google Cloud console. Some of these data sets are also accessible through an API (e.g. using Python). These datasets and their current status are as follows:

This month, we are excited to showcase two case studies that utilized our cyberinfrastructure tools and services. These case studies demonstrate how CIROH's cyberinfrastructure is being utilized to support hydrological research and operational advancements.

1. ngen-datastream and NGIAB​

We're excited to share some recent developments and updates from CIROH's Research CyberInfrastructure team:

Cloud Infrastructure​

• CIROH's Google Cloud Account is now fully operational and managed by our team. You can find more information here.
• We're in the process of migrating our 2i2c JupyterHub to CIROH's Google Cloud account.
• We've successfully deployed the Google BigQuery API (developed by BYU and Google) for NWM data in our cloud. To access this API, please contact us at ciroh-it-admin@ua.edu. Please refer to NWM BigQuery API to learn more.

CIROH Developers Conference 2024

The CIROH team recently participated in the 2nd Annual CIROH Developers Conference (DevCon24), held from May 29th to June 1st,2024. The conference brought together a diverse group of water professionals to exchange knowledge and explore cutting-edge research in the field of hydrological forecasting.

AWRA 2024 Spring Conference

The CIROH CyberInfrastructure team recently participated in the AWRA 2024 Spring Conference, co-hosted by the Alabama Water Institute at the University of Alabama.

Themed "Water Risk and Resilience: Research and Sustainable Solutions," the conference brought together a diverse group of water professionals to exchange knowledge and explore cutting-edge research in the field.

Google Cloud Next '24

Hello everyone, and thanks for stopping by!

I recently had the incredible opportunity to attend Google Cloud Next 2024 in person for the first time, and it was truly an amazing experience. From insightful keynote presentations and workshops to vibrant booths buzzing with connections, the event was a whirlwind of innovation and inspiration.

The CIROH team has been diligently accelerating research cyberinfrastructure capabilities this month. We're thrilled to share key milestones achieved in enhancing the Community NextGen project and our cloud/on-premises platforms.

Welcome to the February edition of the CIROH DocuHub blog, where we bring you the latest updates and news about the Community NextGen project and CIROH's Cloud and on-premise Infrastructure.

Our team has been hard at work enhancing CIROH's Infrastructure and Community NextGen tools. Here are some highlights from February 2024:

1. We successfully launched our new On-premises Infrastructure, which is now fully operational. You can find documentation for it here.

Welcome to the January edition of the CIROH DocuHub blog, where we share the latest updates and news about the Community NextGen project monthly. NextGen is a cutting-edge hydrologic modeling framework that aims to advance the science and practice of hydrology and water resources management. In this month's blog, we will highlight some of the recent achievements and developments of the Community NextGen team.

Happy New Year!!! We are back from SFO after attending AGU last month. We are excited to share the latest updates for NGIAB, NextGen, T-route, Hydrofabric, NextGen forcings, and Community Support from December 2023.

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We've release NGIAB v1.1.0! This release fixes issues:

• #21
• #67
• #44

More info: https://github.com/CIROH-UA/NGIAB-CloudInfra/releases/tag/v1.1.0

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We are excited to share the latest updates for NGIAB, NextGen, T-route, Hydrofabric, NextGen forcings and Community Support.

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We've introduced a fresh addition within the NGIAB, offering the most up-to-date insights on NGIAB and NextGen monthly updates.

Visit NGIAB Release Notes Page

NextGen Framework Forcings​

A new forcing processor tool has been made public. This tool converts any National Water Model based forcing files into ngen forcing files. This process can be an intensive operation in compute, memory, and IO, so this tool facilitates generating ngen input and ultimately makes running ngen more accessible.

Read more​

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