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AN: IN21D-05    [Abstracts]
TI: CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System
AU: * Maidment, D R
EM: maidment@mail.utexas.edu
AF: University of Texas at Austin, Center for Research in Water Resources, Austin, TX 78712 United States
AB: The Consortium of Universities for Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) seeks to build a Hydrologic Information System (HIS) for which hydrologic data sources will be assembled in space and time to create a digital representation of atmospheric, surface and subsurface water flow through a watershed or other hydrologic system. A common data window for automatically accessing water observation data from US federal agencies is being developed based on web data services. Together with the related CLEANER program in environmental engineering, a cybercollaboratory is being used to foster remote access to data and shared research concerning its interpretation and model. A Digital Library to index hydrologic information within a river basin or aquifer has been developed and a Digital Watershed to synthesize observations, GIS, weather and climate grids and remote sensing is being designed and prootyped. Examples are presented from the Neuse basin in North Carolina and other locations to illustrate these components of a Hydrologic Information System.
UR: http://www.cuahsi.org/programs/his.html
DE: 0520 Data analysis: algorithms and implementation
DE: 0525 Data management
DE: 0530 Data presentation and visualization
DE: 0545 Modeling (4255)
SC: Earth and Space Science Informatics [IN]
MN: Fall Meeting 2005