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 Model Instance |
 Inflow Site |
 Lake Site |
 Outflow Site |
This tools allows you to visualize or download historical simulations and 2-week predictions of water quantity, nutrients and phytoplankton for Lake Okeechobee and surrounding rivers and canals.
The user interface displays individual monitoring stations (red shapes) for which the forecast and historical data are provided. Simply click on the selected station, and then a menu appears with multiple options to plot or download data for water, nutrients (phosphorus or nitrogen), or algae (chlorophyll-a).
Please take a look at the demonstration video (link).
Forecasted streamflow data are provided by the GEOGLOWS River Forecast System (RFS).
Hales, R. C., Nelson, E. J., Kopp, S., Levin, H. L., Morris, A. L.,
Souffront Alcantara, M. A., Gutiérrez, A., Magoffin, R. H., Rosas, L.,
& Baaniya, Y. (2025).
The Second Generation Geoglows River Forecast System.
SSRN Electronic Journal.
https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5257837
Additional information:
https://training.geoglows.org/
Meteorological variables from the IFS that are used in this application include:
Copyright Statement:
“This service is based on data and products of the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF).”
Source:
www.ecmwf.int
Licence Statement:
This ECMWF data is published under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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.
Modification Notice:
ECMWF forecast values are bias-corrected for use in this application.
Meteorological Data are accessed using the Herbie Python package:
Blaylock, B. K. (2024).
Herbie: Retrieve Numerical Weather Prediction Model Data (Version 202x.x.x) [Computer software].
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4567540
Meteorological variables from the GFS that are used in this application include:
Variable:
Global Forecast System (GFS), NOAA Environmental Modeling Center, National Centers for Environmental Information, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce. Forecast data accessed from the NOAA Big Data Program (e.g., AWS Open Data Registry) on 18 February 2026.
The GFS data is retrieved using the Open-Mateo software:
Zippenfenig, P. Open-Meteo.com Weather API [Computer software]. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.7970649
Documentation:
https://open-meteo.com/en/docs/gfs-api
Water quality observations are retrieved from DBHydro, an online database of water quality data collected and maintained by the South Florida Water Management District.
DBHYDRO (Environmental Data) — Environmental and hydrologic data provided by the South Florida Water Management District (SFWMD) via the DBHYDRO database ( https://www.sfwmd.gov/science-data/dbhydro ).
The following datasets are based on historical averages or internally derived values: