Spatial Modeling for Resources Framework (SMRF) was developed by Dr. Scott Havens at the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) in Boise, ID. SMRF was designed to increase the flexibility of taking measured weather data and distributing the point measurements across a watershed. SMRF was developed to be used as an operational or research framework, where ease of use, efficiency, and ability to run in near real time are high priorities.
SMRF was developed as a modular framework to enable new modules to be easily integrated and utilized.
Load data into SMRF from MySQL database, CSV files, or gridded climate models (i.e. WRF)
Air temperature
Vapor pressure
Precipitation mass, phase, density, and percent snow
Wind speed and direction
Solar radiation
Thermal radiation
Output variables to NetCDF files
Data queue for multithreaded application
Computation tasks implemented in C
Index
Module Index