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Licenses

CC BY 4.0 License

The GEOGloWS Hydrologic Model Version 2.0 (GEOGloWS) is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.

You are free to:

Share — copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.

Adapt — remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. The licensor cannot revoke these freedoms as long as you follow the license terms.

Under the following terms:

Attribution - You must give appropriate credit , provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made . You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.

No additional restrictions - You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Notices:

You do not have to comply with the license for elements of the material in the public domain or where your use is permitted by an applicable exception or limitation .

No warranties are given. The license may not give you all of the permissions necessary for your intended use. For example, other rights such as publicity, privacy, or moral rights may limit how you use the material.

Licenses of Open Datasets

GEOGloWS uses several licensed open source datasets. The following table summarizes the licenses for these data.

Dataset Purpose License
TDX-Hydro Geospatial stream center line and catchment boundaries CC BY-SA 4.0
ECMWF IFS Gridded runoff forecast data CC BY 4.0
ERA5 Gridded runoff retrospective data CC BY 4.0

Licensing statements required by ECMWF Terms of Use

The following statements are required by ECMWF in compliance with their terms of use.

The following wording shall be attached to the use of this ECMWF data product:

  1. Copyright statement: Copyright "© [2023] European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)".
  2. Source www.ecmwf.int
  3. Licence Statement: This data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
  4. Disclaimer: ECMWF does not accept any liability whatsoever for any error or omission in the data, their availability, or for any loss or damage arising from their use.
  5. Where applicable, an indication if the material has been modified and an indication of previous modifications. GEOGloWS makes no modifications to datasets provided by ECMWF.

Acknowledgement of Open Source Code

Several open source code projects are used to build GEOGloWS. They do not require license statements or redistribution but we acknowledge their role.

  1. GDAL - Geospatial Data Abstraction Library
  2. PROJ - Cartographic Projections Library
  3. Geopackage - GeoPackage is an OGC open source, standards-based, platform-independent, portable, self-describing, compact format for transferring geospatial information.
  4. NetCDF - Network Common Data Form
  5. Zarr - Zarr is a format for the storage of chunked, compressed, N-dimensional arrays
  6. NCO - NetCDF Operators (NCO) are a suite of tools for manipulation of NetCDF files
  7. Xarray - N-D labeled arrays and datasets in Python
  8. Dask - Dask is a flexible library for parallel computing in Python
  9. Numpy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python
  10. Pandas - Powerful data structures for data analysis, time series, and statistics
  11. GeoPandas - GeoPandas is an open source project to make working with geospatial data in python easier
  12. RAPID - RAPID is an implementation of the musking river routing method in fortran optimized for large river networks.