CyberWater—An open and sustainable framework for diverse data and model integration

CyberWater—An open and sustainable framework for diverse data and model integration. Luna, D., Chen, R., Yuan, C., Liang, Y., Liang, X., Bales, J., Castronova, A., M., Demir, I., Hooper, R., P., Krajewski, W., F., Lin, L., Mantilla, R., Pamidighantam, S., Song, F., & Zhang, Y. In American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting, 12, 2019. AGU.
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To tackle fundamental scientific questions regarding health, resilience and sustainability of water resources which encompass hydrological, biological, environmental, atmospheric, and other geosciences that define the Earth system, researchers need to be able to easily access diverse data sources and to also effectively incorporate these data into heterogeneous models. Furthermore, models need to be easily integrated, and many models require supercomputing power to run. To address these cyberinfrastructure challenges, a new sustainable and easy-to-use Open Data and Open Modeling framework called CyberWater is currently under development, which is a collaborative NSF-funded project among University of Pittsburgh, IUPUI/IU, CUAHSI, University of Iowa, NC State University, and Ball State University. CyberWater addresses the challenges of accessing heterogeneous data sources via the Open Data architecture which adopts a common internal data model and representation to facilitate the integration of various external data sources. Data Agents are used to handle remote data access protocols, metadata standards, and source-specific implementations. The Open Modeling architecture allows different models to be easily integrated into CyberWater via Model Agents. CyberWater adopts a graphical scientific workflow system (VisTrails) and offers generic tools to help users develop model agents without coding. At present, CyberWater can run a land surface model (LSM) of Variability Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model and a hydrological model of Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM), and let the user to easily couple an LSM with a routing model. Examples will be presented to illustrate the CyberWater system via the automatic flow from accessing data to model simulation results in a user-friendly workflow-controlled environment. A diverse set of new tools such as spatial and temporal transformations, GIS-related analyses, and high performance computing is under development. All of the current and future functionalities of CyberWater will not only be thoroughly tested and evaluated by the development team but also by the water community. The CyberWater is aimed for the next generation of open data and modeling framework in cyberinfrastructure for broad earth science communities.

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At present, CyberWater can run a land surface model (LSM) of Variability Infiltration Capacity (VIC) model and a hydrological model of Distributed Hydrology Soil Vegetation Model (DHSVM), and let the user to easily couple an LSM with a routing model. Examples will be presented to illustrate the CyberWater system via the automatic flow from accessing data to model simulation results in a user-friendly workflow-controlled environment. A diverse set of new tools such as spatial and temporal transformations, GIS-related analyses, and high performance computing is under development. All of the current and future functionalities of CyberWater will not only be thoroughly tested and evaluated by the development team but also by the water community. The CyberWater is aimed for the next generation of open data and modeling framework in cyberinfrastructure for broad earth science communities.},
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 author = {Luna, Daniel and Chen, Ranran and Yuan, Cao and Liang, Yao and Liang, Xu and Bales, Jerad and Castronova, Anthony M and Demir, Ibrahim and Hooper, Richard P and Krajewski, Witold F and Lin, Lan and Mantilla, Ricardo and Pamidighantam, Sudhakar and Song, Fengguang and Zhang, Yang},
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