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+##Tethys Web App for Utah Energy Balance Snowmelt Model 
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+###Title of Manuscript:
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+Integrating hydrologic modeling web services with online data sharing to prepare, store, and execute hydrologic models
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+###Authors: 
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+Tian Gan, David G. Tarboton, Pabitra Dash, Tseganeh Z. Gichamo, Jeffery S. Horsburgh 
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+This repository contains a reference implementation of a web app presented
+in the manuscript above.
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+###Abstract
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+Web based applications, web services, and online data and model sharing technology are becoming increasingly available 
+to support hydrologic research. This promises benefits in terms of collaboration, computer platform independence, and 
+reproducibility of modeling workflows and results. In this research, we designed an approach that integrates hydrologic 
+modeling web services with an online data sharing system to support web-based simulation for hydrologic models. 
+We used this approach to integrate example systems as a case study to support reproducible snowmelt modeling for a test 
+watershed in the Colorado River Basin, USA. We demonstrated that this approach enabled users to work within an online 
+environment to create, describe, share, discover, repeat, modify, and analyze the modeling work. This approach 
+encourages collaboration and improves research reproducibility. It can also be adopted or adapted to integrate other 
+hydrologic modeling web services with data sharing systems for different hydrologic models. 
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+###Tethys Platform
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+This web app can be installed in the Tethys Platform (for version 1.X). 
+Please check the Tethys Platform [official website](http://docs.tethysplatform.org/en/stable/index.html) for more details.