Mexico – Data Management Systems

While developing river forecast systems for Mexico’s Comision Nacional del Agua (CNA), Riverside Technology, inc. (RTi) stressed the importance of timely availability of real-time hydrometerorologic observations to drive the hydrologic forecast simulations and to verify and adjust hydrologic response. RTi staff discovered that the existing data collection and transmission infrastructure supporting forecast

Web Page Interface to CNA Data

operations was capable of supporting forecast operations only on a limited scale due to delays in the manual processing of data prior to entry into the forecast system.

To address this problem, RTi designed and developed a data management system in support of forecast operations to streamline the flow and processing of data used both for forecast operations and water management operations that are based on real-time data. The central features of the data management system include:

• Remote entry of observed data in regional offices via a web-based interface to both eliminate redundant data entry steps, and to distribute the load among multiple users to eliminate the linear data entry bottleneck at central offices.
• Data flow management to provide timely data availability for forecast operations in both central and regional facilities as well as for international data exchange with cooperating NWS offices.
• Web-based data products to allow up-to-the-minute summaries of current conditions based on observed data reports.

RTi accomplished these tasks using a client-server database linked with a web-server accessible to CNA regional offices over the CNA Wide Area Network.

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