THORR

THORR stands for Thermal History of Regulated Rivers. It is a tool for generating spatio-temporally continuous water temperature estimates for rivers and reservoirs. The water temperature estimates are generated by using a combination of satellite remote sensing data and data-driven techniques. The techniques used in THORR make it possible to reconstruct the hydro-thermal behavior of regulated river networks, including narrow rivers where either traditional remote sensing techniques are not applicable or in-situ data are scarce.

THORR is designed to be scalable, allowing users to apply it in any river network. When used in a new river network, users can either adopt a pretrained machine learning model or train their own model where appropriate and feasible. Generating spatio-teporal water temperature in a river network requires an effecient data management system, therefore THORR’s data is stored in a relational database (either PostgreSQL or MySQL). With all these capabilities of THORR, we hope THORR can be extended to a global scale to help researchers and water resource managers to better understand the hydro-thermal behavior of regulated river networks.

• Getting Started
  • Installation
  • Initial Setup
  • Configuration
  • Workflow and Cronjob
• Database Setup
  • Database Tables
• Modules
  • Command Line Interface
• Web Application
  • Features:
  • Setting up for Postgresql/MySQL platforms
• Publications

How to cite:

If you use THORR, please cite it as follows:

Darkwah, G. K., Hossain, F., Tchervenski, V., Holtgrieve, G., Graves, D., Seaton, C., Minocha, S., Das, P., Khan, S., & Suresh, S. (2024). Reconstruction of the Hydro-Thermal Behavior of Regulated River Networks of the Columbia River Basin Using Satellite Remote Sensing and Data-Driven Techniques. Earth’s Future, 12(10), e2024EF004815. https://doi.org/10.1029/2024EF004815