Water Data Explorer

There has been a growing recognition in recent years of the need for standardized means for sharing water data on the web. One response to this need was the development of the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science (CUAHSI) Hydrologic Information System (HIS) and its accompanying WaterOneFlow and WaterML protocols. To date, the primary means for accessing data shared using these protocols has been limited the Microsoft Windows HydroDesktop software, the WaterML R package, and the web based CUAHSI HydroClient which serves as an access point to the CUAHSI HIS database. We recognized the need for a new web-based tool for accessing data from any system that support WaterOneFlow and WaterML and that could be customized for local or regional web application portals, giving access to the most locally-relevant portions of the HIS database, and providing a means for international government agencies, research teams, and others to make use of the accompanying protocols on a locally managed web application. To fill this need, we developed the open source, lightweight, installable web application, The Water Data Explorer (WDE) which supports any WaterOneFlow service and can be localized ), as a web application developed in the Tethys Platform Framework.