We cordially invite you to our second OpenHydrology splinter meeting. Join us for a feedback session on the eWaterCycle II, including a hands-on trial of the system. Connect with your fellow Open Science enthusiast, discover new models to run your data on, or new data to force your model with!

This will be a “bring your own lunch” meeting, but we will bring dessert!

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From a hydrological point of view, every field, every street, every part of the world, is different. We understand quite well how water moves through plants and soils at small scales but the medium is never the same from one spot to the next. This is the curse of locality. It is difficult to capture such processes with a single global model.

Still, it might be very interesting if there were a computational environment in which you could readily include your local knowledge in a global model. In such an environment, also ideas about process representation can be encoded at a global level to test improvements. In the framework of the eWaterCycle II project (see: http://ewatercycle.github.io), such an environment will be built that allows anyone to include their. Input data, data assimilation, and performance metrics will be provided and generated automatically so you can focus on what you think should be improved. Present partners are Delft University of Technology, Netherlands eScience Center, Utrecht University, and Deltares. The plan is to to build a community multi-model environment that allows rapid and easy combination of local hydrological models with global models, leading to a collaborative environment where anyone can easily contribute to the greater goal of a community built and shared global Hydrological model.
Your input is needed to ensure the optimal environment will be created and to build a true community model.

At this splinter meeting we will demonstrate the first minimal viable product of this environment to the OpenHydrology community. We hope you will share your feedback on our work so far, helping us provide the tools for hydrologist to work together as a global open hydrological community.

By being a member of OpenHydrology you get to actively be part in determining the course of this community and be among the first to use the tools that we developed within the eWaterCycle project hands on at the general assembly.