What is AUGUR?

AUGUR helps estimate precipitation and river discharge for catchments worldwide to account for climate change.

This makes it possible to plan local flood assessments and adaptations to climate change – even when only limited data is available.

The idea

AUGUR combines climate information with hydrological methods and quickly delivers comparable results.

Scenarios and methods can be viewed side by side – making sensitivities and uncertainties visible.

How it works (simple)

AUGUR makes established scientific methods accessible in an easy-to-use web application.

Observational data and models are combined to estimate precipitation and runoff.

In the background, a robust API ensures that calculations can be performed simultaneously.

Get started

Try the Precipitation tool or create a Discharge project. Adjust inputs and rerun to compare results.

Credits & data

AUGUR is open source and was launched by Omar Bellprat for global use with the support of the 'Innovation Meets Practice Accelerator' 2022 of the Humanitarian Aid of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC).

With funding from the Canton of Bern, AUGUR was further developed with the methods of HAKESCH and a rainfall-runoff model (NAM) in collaboration with Hunziker, Zarn und Partner (HZP) and Scherrer Hydrologie.

The entire tool was developed and conceptualized by GeoTools Suter and Bellprat Climate Consulting. It is available at https://github.com/obellprat/augur-hakesch and published as Open Source under the MIT License.