Experimental seasonal hydrologic forecasting for the Western U.S.
Operational Hydrologic Ensemble Forecasting - CNRFC · Operational Hydrologic Ensemble Forecasting...
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Operational Hydrologic Ensemble Forecasting
Rob HartmanHydrologist in Charge
NWS / California-Nevada River Forecast Center
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• Provide river and flood forecasts and warnings for the protection of lives and property.
• Provide basic hydrologic forecast information for the nation’s environmental and economic well being.
Mission of NWS Hydrologic Services Program
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NWS River Forecast Centers
CNRFC• 245,000 sq. miles• 182 Basins modeled• 76 Forecast Points• 42 Reservoir Inflows• 50 Water Supply Points• Lots of people!
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CNRFC HydrologicProducts and Services
Local Flood Warning Systems Support
Flash Flood Guidance
Headwater Guidance
Flood Forecast Guidance
Reservoir Inflow Forecasts
Spring Snow Melt Forecasts
Water Supply Volume
Short Range … … … … … … Long Range
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CNRFC Hydrologic Modeling
(Site Specific)
NWSRFS – OFS
ESP……………………..............
Statistical
6 hour time stepmodular, deterministic
NWSRFS configurationprobablistic (ensemble)
simple, efficient,inflexible
Short Range … … … … … … Long Range
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HAS OperationsHydrometeorological Analysis and Support
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Operational HAS Function
AtmosphericModels
LocalModels
NWS Weather Forecast Offices (11)
5-Day Forecasts(6 hour interval )
- Precipitation- Temperature- Snow Level
RemotelySensed Data
SurfaceObservations
NCEP HydrometeorologicalPrediction Center
HAS
3-Day ForecastsUpdated every 6 hours
Local collaborationas required
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Forecaster ExperiencePattern recognition - historical case
studies Gain familiarity with topography and
gage network
Develop knowledge base on: …NCEP model performance …locally run models and tools
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Hydrologic Operations
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forecastprecip / temp
Operational Flood Forecasting
HAS
RiverForecastSystem
parameters
ObservingSystems
data
Calibration
modelguidance
Hydrologist
hydrologicexpertise &judgment
bulletinsgraphics
Flood ForecastGuidance
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Forecaster Experience
• Watershed characteristics• Model idiosyncrasies• Data and gage issues• Customer and partner needs
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Flood Forecast Guidance
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Hydrologic Ensemble Forecasting
• Initial NWS use as an alternative procedure for generating seasonal water supply volumes.
• Regression-based techniques are still dominant, but ESP use is increasing rapidly.
• Initially considered viable in the time domain where weather/climate uncertainly fully dominates.
• Used to be ~30 days and beyond.• Commonly 15 or less today.
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Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
ClimateForecast
Adjustments
Daily RFCForecasting•Data Ingest•Data QC•Model Updating
Current Conditions•Soil•Reservoir Levels•Streamflow
HistoricalTime Series
All Years ofRecord
ForecastTime
Series
Mean ArealTime Series
PrecipitationTemperature
NWSRFSHydrologic
Models
Time St
ream
flow
April-July
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April-July Volumes
~50 locations
Monthly Updates
www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/water_supply.html
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SpringSnowmeltForecasts
covers next 20 days
www.wrh.noaa.gov/cnrfc/snowmelt.pdf
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Current Benefits of ESP
• Flexibility• Time periods (hours to seasons)• Flow attributes (peaks, lows, volumes, times)
• Ability to objectively integrate weather and climate forecasts• Pre-adjustment techniques • Post-processing techniques
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Potential Benefits ESP
• Accurate short and medium range probabilistic forecasts.
• Objective integration of forecaster and model information and skill.
• Accurate forecast reliability information. • For forecasters!• For customers.
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Hydrologic Ensemble Uses
• Short-range (hours to days)• Watch and warning program• Local emergency management activities• Reservoir and flood control system management
• Medium-range (days to weeks)• Reservoir management• Local emergency management preparedness• Snowmelt runoff management
• Long-range (weeks to months)• Water supply planning• Reservoir management
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CNRFC Ensemble Implementation (AHPS)
• Phase I - Medium and long-range ESP • Headwaters and unregulated points. (FY03-07)
• Phase II - Medium and long-range ESP • Regulated points (FY06-10)
• Phase III - Short-term ESP • All flood forecast points and reservoirs (FY08-12)
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Short-term Ensemble Prototype
• 5 day Precipitation and temperature ensembles
• Based on operational deterministic precipitation and temperature forecasts
• Uses forecast (skill) and watershed climatology
• Reliability is unknown• Need to develop retrospective analysis.
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5 day temperature ensembles
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5 day precipitation ensembles
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American River – 5 day ESP
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Ensemble Challenges
• Appropriately integrate the uncertainty introduced from model, data, and human sources.
OBSERVATIONSprecipitation
air temperaturestreamflow
MODEL PARMSsnow
soil moisturebasin routing
MODEL STATESsnow
soil moisturebasin routing
FORECASTSprecipitation
air temperatureregulation
MODELLING SYSTEMsimplifications
temporal issuesscale issues
HUMAN INPUTeducationtraining
experiencemental state
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Ensemble Challenges
• Mesh ensemble forcing from short, medium, and long range techniques.
forecaster skill
mesoscalewx models
medium rangewx models
long range global circulation models
climate forecasts and indexes
downscaling downscalingdownscaling
variable downscaling
time
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Ensemble Challenges
• Maintain spatial and temporal relationships across very large areas.
rainy+ cold
cloudy+ hot
clear+ warm
snowing
Irrational outcomes
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Ensemble Challenges
• Include forecaster skill in short-term inputs (QPF, temperature, etc.)
• Forecasters add value to short-term QPF.• HPC adds value to models• RFC adds value to HPC
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Ensemble Challenges
• Include forecaster guidance of hydrologic model operation
• Hydrologic models require on-going tuning.
• Forecasters commonly adjust or influence raw model output.
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Ensemble Challenges
• Maintain coherence between deterministic and ensemble forecasts
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• Shorter time step modeling (1 hr vs. 6 hr).• Significant benefits for smaller fast responding watersheds.
• Production of uncertainly information.• Essential to forecasters.• Increasingly useful for many customers.
• Broader support for ungaged and smaller watersheds.• Distributed modeling?
• Visualization of impacts.• Flood inundation mapping (static, near real time).
• Broader application of hydrologic forecasts and information.• Low flow information and drought information.
Where Are We Headed?
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What Do We Need?
• Better precipitation and temperature forecasts (QPF and QTF).
• Reasonable operational assessment of hourly gridded hydrologic model inputs.• Precipitation, Temperature, Freezing Level.
• Operationally functional ensemble techniques for all time domains.
• Better assessment of diversions, accretions throughout the year.
• Meaningful reliability statistics for customers.
• Feedback from customers.• Are we providing the right information?
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