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HMS: Hydrologic Micro Services

Meteorology - Overview

Hydrological cycle is driven mainly by meteorological processes such as precipitation, evapotranspiration, energy and moisture transfer with solar radiation, temperature, and wind. HMS meteorological components include precipitation, air temperature, wind, humidity, and solar radiation. The components tap into national data sources and calculators to retrieve and process data per user requirements. HMS meteorological components add value by performing operations like localizing time series data in situations where the original source of data report time series in Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), calculating spatially weighted average values time series for NHDPlus catchments from gridded datasets, locating weather station closest to a point location or NHDPlus catchment centroid, and temporal aggregations such as daily values from hourly data.