basinwatch
This project aims to create a dashboard for viewing current streamflow anomalies at a basin-scale across the Colorado river basin.
I was inspired to do this after a large snowfall year in Colorado (2018-19), in preparation to see the massive increases in melt rate and streamflow as the melt season progresses.
Components
Web Application: The core of this product is a front-end web application with the following features:
- Allow for quick basin-scale viewing of real-time streamflow anomalies
- Allow for viewing of specific hydrographs
API: The data needs of this application, and the relatively complex calculations required for some of those, mean that we need a set of API endpoints which both remove computation from the browser and allow for access of periodically-computed values.