Reproducible, component‐based modeling with TopoFlow, a spatial hydrologic modeling toolkit
| Autor: | A. M. Endalamaw, W. Robert Bolton, Maria Stoica, Elchin Jafarov, Scott D. Peckham |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Database Computer science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Hydrological modelling 0208 environmental biotechnology Interoperability Component based modeling 02 engineering and technology Environmental Science (miscellaneous) Python (programming language) 010502 geochemistry & geophysics computer.software_genre 01 natural sciences 020801 environmental engineering Scripting language General Earth and Planetary Sciences Web service business computer 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Graphical user interface computer.programming_language |
| Zdroj: | Earth and Space Science. 4:377-394 |
| ISSN: | 2333-5084 |
| DOI: | 10.1002/2016ea000237 |
| Popis: | Modern geoscientists have online access to an abundance of different data sets and models, but these resources differ from each other in myriad ways and this heterogeneity works against interoperability as well as reproducibility. The purpose of this paper is to illustrate the main issues and some best practices for addressing the challenge of reproducible science in the context of a relatively simple hydrologic modeling study for a small Arctic watershed near Fairbanks, Alaska. This study requires several different types of input data in addition to several, coupled model components. All data sets, model components and processing scripts (e.g. for preparation of data and figures, and for analysis of model output) are fully documented and made available online at persistent URLs. Similarly, all source code for the models and scripts is open-source, version controlled and made available online via GitHub. Each model component has a Basic Model Interface (BMI) to simplify coupling and its own HTML help page that includes a list of all equations and variables used. The set of all model components (TopoFlow) has also been made available as a Python package for easy installation. Three different graphical user interfaces for setting up TopoFlow runs are described, including one that allows model components to run and be coupled as web services. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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