Uptake by end-users of a PUB approach made available as a Web Service

Abstract

A consolidated geomorphology-based approach for discharge hydrograph Prediction in Ungauged Basins (PUB) through deconvolution of discharge signals from gauged donor catchments, their transposition and their convolution towards target outlets, has been made available online to end-users through a Web Service (Web Processing Service Application Programming Interface – WPS API) for the synoptic peninsular region of Brittany, France. In the spirit of hydrological services, the SIMFEN Web Service allows anyone to execute the hydrological modelling online through OGC® interoperability standards; collection of public hydrometric data; connection to a pre-existing Web Service for geomorphometric analysis; and online visualization. Thanks to tangible indicators, we here show how the users' community is actually active in using the Web Service, i.e. in uptaking the recent science-operational translation of a scientific development into a Service.