Over the past four years, UNC-Chapel Hill’s Renaissance Computing Institute (RENCI) and Coastal Resilience Center (CRC) collaborated to develop a state-of-the-science, cloud-ready data engine, visualization, and information delivery system called the ADCIRC Prediction System (APS). APS computes and disseminates real-time coastal hazards information. A key component of this is APSViz, a webportal developed by RENCI’s Earth Data Science group, led by Dr. Brian Blanton, that visualizes the complex computer simulations. After the 2023 hurricane season, the APSViz framework was re-engineered to improve the user experience and mapping display response times, resulting in a website that is much more performant and intuitive.

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