Floodwater Forecast System Documentation

Floodwater is a modern and extensible forecasting system for use with hydrodynamic models. Floodwater has been designed to operate in high performance computing environments and works in tandem with the MetGet system. The system utilizes the ecFlow workflow controller and has been tested on large NSF funded supercomputers, small clusters, and within cloud computing environments.

Floodwater is developed under the terms of the Apache License 2.0.

Contents:

• System Overview
  • External Components
  • Model Controller
  • Forecast Cycles
• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • ecFlow Server Setup
  • Running Your First Job
  • Tips and Tricks
• Configuration Files
  • Suite Configuration File
  • Credentials File
  • System Configuration File
  • FloodID Configuration File
  • APSViz Configuration File
  • Model Geometry Configuration Files
• Command Line Interface
  • Sub-commands
• Runtime Options
• Supporters and Users
• Acknowledgements
• Developer Guide
  • Installation
  • Pre-commit