HydroShare: A Platform for Collaborative Data and Model Sharing in Hydrology

Advances in hydrology, as in many domains of science, increasingly requires integration of information from multiple sources, reuse and repurposing of data, and collaboration. The complex, multi-faceted problems faced in hydrology such as predicting floods and droughts in the face of climate and watershed changes cannot be addressed by scientists, either experimentalists or modelers, working individually. Instead, team science and collaboration is required, with data and models open, accessible and transparent to support reproducibility and enhance trust in findings. Cyberinfrastructure is needed to help scientists move into this new paradigm of collaborative research. HydroShare is a web based hydrologic information system operated by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science Inc.(CUAHSI) that is available for use worldwide as a service to the hydrology community …