Getting Hands-on with the CIROH Community HydroFabric
Day 2 Session 1 (0:00AM)
Presenters:
Tony Castronova
James Halgren
Irene Garousi-Nejad
Josh Cunningham
This interactive workshop will introduce attendees to an ongoing effort to not only make the NextGen Hydrofabric open and accessible, but also at lowering the barriers to accessing, using, and contributing to these essential CIROH datasets. Attendees will be introduced to the CIROH Community Hydrofabric cyberinfrastructure, a new system that enables researchers to contribute to and adapt hydrofabric datasets while maintaining alignment with NOAA’s operational standards. This workshop will introduce the work undertaken to provide access to community-maintained research versions of the hydrofabric, provide a hands-on exploration of access and data management capabilities designed to support innovative NextGen modeling activities, and present a framework for contributing enhancements through well-defined processes. The workshop will demonstrate practical applications showing how community knowledge can be integrated into the hydrofabric, and provide foundational skills in exploring, subsetting, and utilizing hydrofabric datasets for your own research applications. Whether you’re working on model calibration, parameter development, or exploring new modeling capabilities, this workshop will equip you with the tools and knowledge to engage with this critical infrastructure supporting the future of water prediction.
Learning Outcomes:
- Attendees will be introduced to the CIROH Community Hydrofabric Framework and understand how it operates through well-defined workflows and contribution processes.
- Attendees will gain hands-on experience accessing, exploring, subsetting, and using hydrofabric datasets for specific case studies, with potential to adapt them to regions of interest.
- Attendees will learn about data management tools and workflows, potentially including version control, while contributing to the Community Hydrofabric.
Prerequisites:
- Basic understanding and prior exposure to the NextGen and Reference Hydrofabric.
- Familiarity with Git version control
- Experience using the Python programming language in research applications.
- Builds on prior knowledge obtained from the 2025 hydrofabric workshop.
- Accounts that should be set up prior to the workshop: