The HYPE Open Source Community is now open to anyone interested in hydrology, for cooperative code development. The community was successfully launched recently. The international community for developing hydrological computational models is gaining momentum, and several teams from around the world have also chosen to use SMHI’s hydrological calculation model HYPE. So far around 400 users ...
The Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) announced this week the publishing of its Final Report on the Surface Water Interoperability Experiment. The report describes the methods, results, issues and recommendations generated by the Surface Water Interoperability Experiment (SW IE), carried out as an activity of the OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group (HDWG). The SW IE was designed to advance the ...
Recent advances in technology are bringing many benefits to a national soil and vegetation survey currently being carried out by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) as part of our UK-SCAPE programme. To read the full article, please click ...
Moving into a new house often evokes mixed feelings. Pleasant anticipation, respect for the related work, but also a bit of nostalgia. Now, we’re ready to launch our new blog. There you find, as usual, interesting and astonishing stories from the hydrological community as well as news about the broad product portfolio by OTT, Hydrolab, and Sutron. Aside from a reworked – we think ...
Considerable interest is being shown in hydrological models with open source codes, which users are free to continue developing. The Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute’s (SMHI) hydrological model HYPE is being developed with open source codes so that researchers all over the world will be able to develop models in cooperation. A network has also been built around the source ...
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The results of a public voting process have confirmed that the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) has decided to adopt WaterML 2.0 as an official OGC standard for hydrological time series encoding. KISTERS has been actively involved in the OGC Hydrology Domain Working Group (HDWG) in charge of developing WaterML 2.0 for many years and is proud to see that the long-term effort has paid out. The ...
SMHI provides pan-European water information based on their hydrological model system, E-HYPE (European HYdrological Predictions for the Environment). During the summer, 20 people from six European countries gathered at SMHI to find out more about the model results. The course focused on hydrological modelling of continental Europe and the participants learned about the assumptions behind the ...
In October CERC expert consultants spent two weeks in Zagreb (Croatia) training six specialists from the Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service (DHMZ) in the use of CERC's air quality software. During the first week the focus was on urban and regional modelling, using CERC's ADMS-Urban. CERC's EMIT was also introduced as a comprehensive tool for collating and editing data for use in ...
Steve Elgie recently joined the KISTERS North American team in Canada as a sales and support specialist. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Physical Geography (focus on geomatics and hydrology) and a Master of Science in Geography (focus on hydrology) from the University of Guelph. His thesis focus was assessing the effects of pollutant reduction strategies using a hydrologic model integrated into ...
Researchers at SMHI received the award for the best article in the journal Hydrology Research. The article describes how information from climate simulations can be adapted to develop scenarios for water flow and water balance in a future climate. The journal "Hydrology Research" is the official journal of the Nordic Association for Hydrology and its counterparts in Britain, Germany and Italy. ...
The 8th National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) conference and exhibition was a great success, with the largest attendance, agenda, and exhibitor numbers to date. Held from May 18-21 in beautiful Vail, Colorado, the conference is dedicated to providing information on real-time hydrologic warning systems to those who deal with storm readiness, emergency response and recovery. Featured at the ...
The latest results from the annual UK Butterfly Monitoring Scheme (UKBMS) led by Butterfly Conservation, the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH), British Trust for Ornithology (BTO) and Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC), show that 2019 was the best year for UK butterflies in over 20 years. Butterflies most likely benefited from an unusually warm and wet summer. Just over ...
KISTERS North America, Inc., a leading provider of advanced hydrological data management tools, announces the addition of McGurk Hydrologic as a key affiliate of KISTERS North America. McGurk Hydrologic provides runoff forecasting, hydrologic simulation modeling, environmental review, and water and land management services to a wide range of clients across the US. They also provide hydrologic ...
We must take notice of the hydrological ecosystem services of tropical forests to avoid "mega-droughts" and devastating wildfires in Amazonian forests, says Brazilian conservation biologist Carlos Peres. The severe droughts of 1997, 1998, 2005 and 2010 changed the general view that tropical forests can resist fire destruction because of the moisture stored underneath heavy canopies, Peres says. ...
KISTERS recently wrapped up a successful week at the Canadian Water Resources Association (CWRA) national conference in beautiful Banff, Alberta. KISTERS staff helped organize the event's exhibitors and sponsors, as well as participated in workshops and gave presentations on topics related to hydrologic data management. One workshop, held by the North American Stream Hydrographers (NASH) ...
pThe a href=http://www.hydrologicwarning.org/content.aspx?page_id=22club_id=617218module_id=484948th National Hydrologic Warning Council (NHWC) conference /aand exhibition was a great success, with the largest attendance, agenda, and exhibitor numbers to date. Held from May 18-21 in beautiful Vail, Colorado, the conference is dedicated to providing information on real-time hydrologic warning ...
The creation and subsequent operation of an international data centre on the hydrology of lakes and reservoirs has for a long time been expected by the international scientific community. For example, longterm, highquality data from lakes, such as water levels, and freeze and breakup dates, provide a valuable indicator for regional climate variability and change. Despite the existence of various ...
Aurecon is a sponsor of the 17th SANCIAHS (South African National Committee for the International Association of Hydrological Sciences) National Hydrology Symposium, which will be held in Cape Town on 1-3 September 2014. “The event is a premier gathering of hydrologists, academics, government agencies, and water resources professionals to present and discuss their research, experiences and ...
Mangrove restoration projects are carried out world-wide to rehabilitate degraded mangrove forests. These restoration projects often have a low success rate because planting of new trees is done without taking into account site-specific hydrological conditions. To bring more hydrological knowledge into mangrove restoration projects, an international group of researchers, including Bram te Brake ...