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Suite of tools for retrieving USGS NWIS observations and evaluating National Water Model (NWM) data.
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question about update cycle for hydrotools #248

Closed andywood closed 3 months ago

andywood commented 3 months ago

Will hydrotools be updated to stay current as the hydrofabric and products change? The included routelink files are somewhat out of date now (3 years) and don't include AK or v3.x. Or is this repo being superseded or complemented by newer OWP evaluation capability codes/repos? If so it might be useful to include a section in the landing-page README for 'Related Capabilities' to point to the other repos.

jarq6c commented 3 months ago

I'm currently in the process of updating the nwm_client_new package to retrieve operational forecasts from the expanded domain in v3.0.7. Note that the routelink files did not change significantly for three years (v2.1.6 was identical to v2.2.3). The routelink was updated on NOMADS in August 2023 without much fanfare, and the NWM v3.0 model output stream wasn't stable for over a month.

The hydrotools source files on HydroShare have been updated: https://www.hydroshare.org/resource/e9fe66730d184bdfbaea19639bd7cb55/

All that remains is to update the software side. I'll update here once that's done (hopefully, next week).

With regard to the hydrofabric and v4.0/NGEN modeling output: It remains unclear to what extent, if any, hydrotools will support the new output. Theoretically, future versions of the NWM will generate similar or identical output to what is produced now, but as of today we have no official word on that, nor any official support for hydrotools as a user of current or future model output.

andywood commented 3 months ago

Hi Jason, amazing, you may have set a record for speed of response to an issue (and on a Saturday no less)! Thanks for the insights and the link. The NextGen HF still has some development ahead so it makes sense that this doesn't connect with that yet.

jarq6c commented 3 months ago

Thanks for reporting this issue @andywood

The nwm_client_new package is now compatible with the expanded domain. You can find examples on PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/hydrotools.nwm-client-new/7.4.0/