Authors: Iman Maghami, Nathan Swain, Giovanni Romero, Corey Krewson – Aquaveo; and Daniel P. Ames – Brigham Young University
Title: Toward a Modular RFC Application Framework for Hydrologic Decision Support within the TethysDash Ecosystem
Presentation Type: Lightning Talk
Abstract: NOAA River Forecast Centers (RFCs) provide a wide range of operational hydrologic products, including river observations and forecasts, flood outlooks, precipitation products, snow information, and other region-specific resources. These products are distributed across multiple RFC platforms and interfaces, making it challenging to provide unified and customizable access within reusable hydroinformatics and decision-support workflows and applications. This work presents the ongoing development of a modular RFC dashboard and application framework within the Tethys ecosystem using TethysDash, a plugin-based dashboard and visualization framework for decision support applications. The framework uses reusable visualization and plugin components, metadata-driven configurations, and API-based workflows to support integration of common RFC-specific datasets while preserving RFC-oriented navigation structures. Current development includes prototype RFC applications for interactive map-based access and visualization of selected operational datasets, along with exploration of reusable approaches for integrating RFC products and navigation workflows within TethysDash applications. This allows TethysDash users to incorporate RFC datasets in their custom dashboard alongside National Water Model, NextGen, and FIM visualizations that have been previously integrated for use in decision support, evaluation, and exploration workflows.