Background
Paricia is a hydroclimatic data management system being developed in collaboration with Professor Wouter Buytaert (Civil and Environmental Engineering), whose research focus on the impact of environmental change on the water cycle and its consequences for managing water resources. Based originally on software donated by the Foundation for the Protection of Water (FONAG) in Quito, Ecuador, it evolved drastically in a previous collaboration to improve its sustainability and robustness.
Our Contribution
Over several follow up collaborations, the RSE team has refined and improve several aspects of the tool to make it more robust and user friendly. Among other aspects, it has included full time zone support, to be able to ingest data from anywhere over the world, created from scratch a new frontend based on Bootstrap5, and added progressive zooming in Plotly/Dash-generated plots, making the user experience when visualising large datasets more pleasant. Documentation for end users and developers has also been put in place.
Outcomes
The new tool has been presented to collaborators both at iMHEA - the current users of the original tool - as well as served as the basis for the discussions with possible collaborators across Europe, and it is taking the steps to move to production.
Testimonials
Professor Wouter Buyaert, Professor in Hydrology and Water Resources, Civil and Environmental Engineering:
“Paricia is now a cornerstone of our participatory hydrological monitoring activities in the Andes. It helps us produce scientific evidence to support mountain water security and climate adaptation, but also to experiment with more inclusive approaches to knowledge co-production with local partners.”