Decision Support Tools

HYDROMET-BOX

HYDRO-MET Box is an easy-access platform for hydro-meteorological data in Lower Mekong Region

Graphic that reads HYDRO-MET Box is an easy-access platform for hydro-meteorological data in Lower Mekong Region

The application provides various hydro-climate and meteorological datasets including historical, near real-time data and rainfall forecasts. It also provides bias corrected precipitation, water elevation, groundwater, soil moisture, salinity, land subsidence, temperature, and urban heat data products from publicly available satellite measurements and models by creating a virtual network over the entire Lower Mekong Region.

Application Purpose

The application aims to improve flood risk assessment and provides communities, governments and humanitarian organizations with useful information for better flood preparedness and response.

Application Uses

Flood modeling, Flood Early Warning, Water Resource Management, Reservoir Management and Transboundary river basin management

Geographic Region
Lower Mekong Region
Developer(s)
ADPC/SERVIR-Mekong
Contributors/Partners
  • University of Houston
  • Climate Hazards Center (CHC), UC Santa Barbara
Users
  • Mekong River Commission (MRC)
  • Center for Water Resources Warning and Forecast (CEWAFO) of National Center for Water Resources Planning and Investigation (NAWAPI)
Earth Observations and NASA Products Used
  • Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS) NCEP Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) (CHIRPS-GEFS) 
  • Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM)  
  • Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals (IMERG)  
  • Global Satellite Mapping of Precipitation (GSMaP)  
  • CPC MORPHing technique (CMORPH)  
  • Climate Hazards Center InfraRed Precipitation with Stations (CHIRPS)  
  • Jason-2/3  
  • Sentinel-3A/3B (Altimetry)  
  • Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE)  
  • Soil Moisture Active Passive (SMAP) 9 km - Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity (SMOS)  
  • Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS)  
  • Landsat  
  • ALOS-PALSAR  
  • The NASA POWER Project (https://power.larc.nasa.gov/)