RAPID:Archiving and Enabling Community Access to Data from Recent US Hurricanes

飓风哈维和伊尔玛是影响很大的天气事件。尤其是哈维是一次独特的风暴事件，就降雨量而言，它超过了以往所有有记录的风暴。帮助研究界更好地了解此类事件的信息将使更好的预报技术和关键设施设计能够更好地抵御恶劣天气事件。该项目的目标是收集、记录和存档来自飓风Harvey和Irma的数据，该数据服务由大学水文科学促进联盟(CUAHSI)提供，支持广泛类别的水文数据和模型的共享和发布。这些数据将成为了解如此大规模和持续的洪水和降雨事件是如何发生的，以及应该如何设计关键基础设施的关键资源。此外，有130多个机构在使用海力士，集中提供与飓风哈维和伊尔玛有关的信息，这将使与这些事件有关的研究更容易进行，并促进对这些数据的创造性和意想不到的使用。

Hurricanes Harvey and Irma were large, highly impactful, weather events.  In particular, Harvey was a unique storm event that exceeded all previously recorded storms in terms of precipitation. Information that helps the research community understand such events better will enable better forecasting techniques and designs of critical facilities design that can better withstand severe weather events.The objective of this project is to collect, document and archive data from hurricanes Harvey and Irma within HydroShare, a data service provided by the Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI) that supports the sharing and publication of a broad class of hydrologic data and models. This data will serve as a key resource for understanding how such large and sustained flooding and rainfall events could have occurred, and how critical infrastructures should be designed. Further, HydroShare is used by over 130 institutions, and having the information related to Hurricanes Harvey and Irma centrally available will have allow research related to these events to be more easily conducted, as well as facilitate creative and unanticipated use of this data.