Growing demand from the general public for centralized points of data access and analytics tools coincides with similar, well-documented needs of regional and international hydrology research and resource management communities. To address this need within the Laurentian Great Lakes region, we introduce the Great Lakes Dashboard (GLD), a dynamic web data visualization platform that brings multiple time series data sets together for visual analysis and download. The platform's adaptable, robust, and expandable Time Series Core Object Model (GLD-TSCOM) separates the growing complexity and size of Great Lakes data sets from the web application interface. Although the GLD-TSCOM is currently applied exclusively to Great Lakes data sets, the concepts and methods discussed here can be applied in other geographical and topical areas of interest. The Great Lakes Dashboard, The Great Lakes Water Level Dashboard, and The Great Lakes Hydro-Climate Dashboard National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Great Lakes Environmental Research Laboratory, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA and Cooperative Institute for Limnology and Ecosystems Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA Adobe Flash capable computer with modern system specifications Internet browser (Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Internet Explorer, etc.), Adobe Flash Plugin MXML and ActionScript under the Apache Flex Framework, compiled under the Adobe Flash Builder and JetBrains IntelliJ IDEA, HTML, JavaScript with jQuery and Dygraphs packages All Adobe Flash based products are freely available at the following sites: http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/gldb, http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/wldb, and http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/hcdb http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/dashboard/GLD_HTML5.html http://www.glerl.noaa.gov/data/dbportal 
An expandable web-based platform for visually analyzing basin-scale hydro-climate time series data