Interactive hydrological modelling and simulation on client-side web systems: an educational case study

Gregory Ewing; Ricardo Mantilla; Witold Krajewski; Ibrahim Demir

doi:10.2166/hydro.2022.061

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Interactive hydrological modelling and simulation on client-side web systems: an educational case study

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Interactive hydrological modelling and simulation on client-side web systems: an educational case study

Gregory Ewing, Ricardo Mantilla, Witold Krajewski and Ibrahim Demir

Journal of hydroinformatics, Vol.24(6), pp.1194-1206

11/02/2022

DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2022.061

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Abstract

Computational hydrological models and simulations are fundamental pieces of the workflow of contemporary hydroscience research, education, and professional engineering activities. In support of hydrological modelling efforts, web-enabled tools for data processing, storage, computation, and visualization have proliferated. Most of these efforts rely on server resources for computation and data tasks and client-side resources for visualization. However, continued advancements of in-browser, client-side compute performance present an opportunity to further leverage client-side resources. Towards this end, we present an operational rainfall-runoff model and simulation engine running entirely on the client side using the JavaScript programming language. To demonstrate potential uses, we also present an easy-to-use in-browser interface designed for hydroscience education. Although the use case presented here is self-contained, the core technologies can extend to leverage multi-core processing on single machines and parallelization capabilities of multiple clients or JavaScript-enabled servers. These possibilities suggest that client-side hydrological simulation can play a central role in a dynamic, interconnected ecosystem of web-ready hydrological tools.

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Title: Subtitle: Interactive hydrological modelling and simulation on client-side web systems: an educational case study
Creators: Gregory Ewing - University of Iowa
Ricardo Mantilla - University of Manitoba
Witold Krajewski - University of Iowa
Ibrahim Demir - University of Iowa
Resource Type: Journal article
Publication Details: Journal of hydroinformatics, Vol.24(6), pp.1194-1206
DOI: 10.2166/hydro.2022.061
ISSN: 1464-7141
eISSN: 1465-1734
Publisher: IWA Publishing
Number of pages: 13
Grant note: DOI: 10.13039/100000001, name: National Science Foundation, award: 1835338
Language: English
Date published: 11/02/2022
Academic Unit: Electrical and Computer Engineering; Civil and Environmental Engineering; Injury Prevention Research Center
Record Identifier: 9984318252902771

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