EGU23-5702
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-5702
EGU General Assembly 2023
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The eWaterCycle platform for open and FAIR hydrological collaboration

Rolf Hut1, Jerom Aerts1, Pau Wiersma3, Vincent Hoogelander1, Nick van de Giesen1, Niels Drost2, Peter Kalverla2, Ben van Werkhoven2, Stefan Verhoeven2, Fakhereh (Sarah) Alidoost2, Barbara Vreede2, and Yang Liu2
Rolf Hut et al.
  • 1Faculty of Civil Engineering and Geoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, Netherlands (r.w.hut@tudelft.nl)
  • 2Netherlands eScience Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 3Institute of Earth Surface Dynamics (IDYST), University of Lausanne , Lausanne, Switzerland

The eWaterCycle platform introduced in 2022 (https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-15-5371-2022) provides hydrologists with an online platform to conduct numerical studies involving hydrological models. It allows hydrologists to work with each other's data and datasets directly from a webbrowser. The workflow of the experiment done is clearly visible, reproducible and easily adaptable because of how eWaterCycle separates the model (the algorithm) used from the experiment done with the model. eWaterCycle is designed such that research conducted on the platform is ‘FAIR by design’. Using eWaterCycle, studies can be done in less time, more transparently and by more junior members of the hydrological community than was possible a few years ago. 

In this presentation, we will explain the capabilities of the eWaterCycle platform and show them by describing recently (published) works of MSc and PhD members of our team, including a model coupling study, a large sample hydrology study and a climate impact assessment study.

How to cite: Hut, R., Aerts, J., Wiersma, P., Hoogelander, V., van de Giesen, N., Drost, N., Kalverla, P., van Werkhoven, B., Verhoeven, S., Alidoost, F. (., Vreede, B., and Liu, Y.: The eWaterCycle platform for open and FAIR hydrological collaboration, EGU General Assembly 2023, Vienna, Austria, 24–28 Apr 2023, EGU23-5702, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu23-5702, 2023.