RHOK Oxford - next steps

Now I've had a few evenings fiddling with the code and ideas generated at RHoK Oxford two weeks ago I have something that I'll be able to demonstrate to my Met Office colleagues in the new year.  The URL for anyone who'd like to try it out is http://floodsourcerhok.appspot.com/

The simple idea here is to make weather data from global reanalysis available to help develop flood forecast models. See http://www.rhok.org/solutions/floodsource for more information.

What happens next isn't certain but I'm optimistic that something along these lines will available soonish.

RHoK Oxford - FloodSource

Ok guys - here's the idea....


And here's some data...

What you see plotted here is sub-daily precipitation data from the 20th Century reanalysis. Before going to Oxford I had a prototype API for extracting mean monthly data.  Now there's an improved version that can extract sub-daily data for a range of variables including precipitation, temperature and soil moisture.
The above example is for Cambodia in August 2007.  There was a major flood on the 24th August.

Giant leap - Random Hacks of Kindness, Oxford

Over the next few evenings I'll draw together some of the work on the FloodSource project at Random Hacks of Kindness, Oxford.



Here's a visualisation of the cleaned up CSV file of global floods presented in Google Fusion Tables. The information shown is from Dartmouth Flood Observatory.