Our Products
Manage your water resources more effectively than ever before with M3Works' innovative snowpack modeling and geoscience software consulting. Our advanced, physics-based models are here to support informed decision-making in the US and all around the world.
"Physics-based” means our models are grounded in real-world physical processes and validated against observed data, transforming how you forecast.
Without validation, models may look impressive, but decisions are still riskier.
With validation, forecasts are more reliable and water decisions are defensible.
For water managers, this means fewer surprise shortages, better flood prevention, strategic reservoir releases, and confidence when making high-stakes calls.
Dive into our products below to explore the future of hydrology technology.
Snowpack Modeling with iSnobal
Over the last decade, we have used every data source available to increase the skill of iSnobal. Today M3W-Isnobal the most skillful model available for snow hydrology and is being used to manage the world's most complicated water.
Below are the services we provide:
Realtime SWE Modeling
- Daily SWE, SWI, Precipitation, and more at 50m resolution
- Streamflow
- Basin SWE bias detection and adjustment
- Remote sensing integration
- Fire disturbance accounting
- Model results analysis, tools, and consulting
- Annual model improvements, carrying on the “research to operations” legacy of iSnobal
Short term forecasting for flood management
- Up to 10 day forecast SWE, SWI, and streamflow
- Rain on snow impacts
Retrospective SWE Modeling
- Daily SWE, SWI and Precip as far back as 1980
- Drought detection
- Estimate cloud seeding efforts
- Historical context for subbasins, water years and even elevation bands
- Bridge the gap between statistical approaches to better incorporate physical observations of the snowpack
Operations Support
- Custom dashboards, reports, and analysis
- Facetime with our modelers to help with interpretation
- Transparent basin storage metrics
- Validation of your modeled data
Stakeholder Interaction support
- On demand basin status reports
- Figures for communicating basin conditions
- Presentations
M3W-iSnobal has been used in projects for:
California Department of Water Resources, Denver Water, Colorado River District, Colorado River Authority of Utah, Friant Water, the San Joaquin basin for flood concerns, NRCS to improve seasonal streamflow forecasting, the Idaho Department of Water Resources to investigate cloud seeding effects, and NASA to explore spaceborne remote sensing techniques.
Learn more:
The challenges of water management and snowmelt
Remote sensing with the iSnobal model
Integration with Basin-Scale Remote Sensing Products
In collaboration with the Airborne Snow Observatories, we incorporate snow depth measurements made with basin-scale aerial lidar into the snowpack model. The combination of physical measurements and snowpack modeling is the perfect partnership for operational SWE and snowmelt predictions.
Software Consulting
M3Works has a proven track record of making scientific models and data pipelines more streamlined, repeatable, and modern. We offer services for both development and technical refinement of geoscience software. Let’s close the gap between the applications you use and the research that is now available.
Our software services include:
- Geospatial database management
- Model results analysis, tools, and consulting
- Model research and development
- Open source projects
- Private projects
Let's chat about your project! Contact info@m3works.io
Among other agencies, our software consulting service has been used by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission to modernize streamflow forecasting.
Learn more about software advancements:
Our Mission
At M3Works, our mission is to create practical software solutions that empower emerging sciences. By bridging the gap between research and real-world applications, we transform cutting-edge discoveries into actionable insights. We develop valuable data products that support decision-making in natural resource management, ensuring that scientific advancements lead to practical outcomes that benefit both the environment and society.
Our team is dedicated to enhancing the effectiveness of natural resources decision-making by providing intuitive tools and data-driven solutions. We collaborate closely with researchers, industry leaders, and stakeholders to ensure that our software meets the evolving needs of the field. From data collection to analysis and visualization, M3Works is committed to developing solutions that make complex data accessible and impactful, helping drive informed decisions that protect and sustain our natural resources for future generations.
