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CIROH at AGU 2024

· One min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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. 📝

Community NextGen Updates

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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.

CIROH Science Meeting 2024

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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

Accessing National Water Model (NWM) Data via Google Cloud BigQuery API

· 3 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect
gcp architectrure diagram Image Source: https://github.com/BYU-Hydroinformatics/api-nwm-gcp

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:

ProductCloud Console SQLCIROH APIHistoricalDaily Updates
Medium-range forecastsXXXX
Long-range forecastsXXXX
Analysis and AssimilationXXXX
Retrospective Data (NWM v3)XX
Return PeriodsXX

CIROH Research CyberInfrastructure Update

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

CIROH Developers Conference 2024

DevCon2024

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

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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: A Flood of Innovation and Inspiration

· 4 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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.

Monthly News Update - February 2024

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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.

NextGen Monthly News Update - January 2024

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

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.

NextGen Framework Forcings

· One min read
Jordan Laser
at Lynker

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.

Welcome DocuHub's Blog

· 2 min read
Arpita Patel
DevOps Manager and Enterprise Architect

Adding posts

What file name to use?

DocuHub will extract a YYYY-MM-DD date from many patterns such as YYYY-MM-DD-my-blog-post-title.md or YYYY/MM/DD/my-blog-post-title.md. This enables you to easily group blog posts by year, by month, or to use a flat structure.