# Presentation: 478889

## IntegratedWater Resource Services

- IntegratedWater Resource Services

- Marty Ralph
- NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory
- NOAA Central Team Meeting
- May 16, 2007

- Water:* *
*   **when scarce, a precious resource *
*   **when excessive, a source of many hazards*

## Challenge:National Water Resource Impacts

-  Economic Prosperity (energy, transportation, recreation, agriculture)
-  Population Growth and Demand (~1%/yr with dramatic shifts to the highlands and drylands)
-  Water Contamination (increasing by ~4%/yr)
-  Challenges for Ground Water Management and Sustainable Irrigation
-  Drought Risk Mitigation
-  Ecosystem Health

**Challenge:**National Water Resource Impacts

- Where is the water, what is the quality, where is it going?
- How can water resources be managed more efficiently?
- What are the requirements for recovery planning and restoration?

## Priority Area Task TeamIntegrated Water Resource Services – Gary Carter (lead)

- Roger Pulwarty (OAR CPO)
- Marty Ralph (OAR ESRL)
- Robin Webb (OAR ESRL)
- Kevin Kelleher (OAR NSSL)
- Scott Cross (NESDIS NCDDC)
- Jawed Hameedi (NOS NCCOS

- Mary Erickson (NOS OCS)
- Dick Wagenmaker (NWS CR)
- Dave Brandon (NWS WR)
- Pedro Restrepo (NWS OHD)
- Peter Gabrielsen (NWS ER)
- David Palmer (OAR AOML)
- John Stein (NMFS NWFSC)

## NOAA's Role:Data and Science to Augment and Integrate Water Forecasts for Decision Makers 

***Weather and Climate Information:***
***Temperature***
***Precipitation***
***Wind, ...***

- Hydrology and Water Resource Modeling

***Water Management***

***Water Information ***

**“****Summit to the Sea” Decision Support Tools **

**Drought Mitigation**
**Flood Control**
**Public Safety (Flash Floods, Debris Flow)**
**Water Supply**
**River Commerce**
**Power Generation**
**Agriculture**
**Recreation**
**Ecosystem Health**

- Socioeconomic
- Sciences

**NOAA's Role:**Data and Science to Augment and Integrate Water Forecasts for Decision Makers** **

## Long-range Objective: “Summit to the Sea” Life Cycle Water Modeling

***Freshwater Spawning/Rearing***
***♦ ******Snowpack***
***♦ ******Air Temperature***
***♦ ******Nutrients***

***Downstream Migration***
***♦ ******River Flow***
***♦ ******Water Temperature***
***♦ ******Dam Operations***

***Estuary/Early Ocean***
***♦ ******Water temperature and turbidity***
***♦ ******Nutrient Availability and Quality***
***♦ ******Predator Composition and Abundance***

***Model Outputs:***
***♦ ******Probability of Population Extinction***
***♦ ******Annual Population Growth Rate***

## Strategy:Establish Paradigm for Integrated Water Resource Services

**Deliver Integrated Information**
**and Products to Inform**
** ****Planning and Decision Making**

- Community Hydrologic Prediction System
- Great Lakes Large Basin Runoff Models
- Interagency Fish Passage Models
- Community Inundation Models
- Community Estuary Models

**Advance and Integrate:**
** ****Hydrological and Ecological**
** ****Monitoring and Modeling**

**Develop Enhanced Applications****:**
** ****Drought and Flood Forecasts**
** ****Water Temperature & Soil Moisture Forecasts**
**Estuary Water Level and Salinity Forecasts**
**Links to Ecological/Biological Forecasts **
**Early Warning &Decision Support Tools**

**Engage and Listen**
** ****To Our Customers**

- Hydromet and Climate Testbeds
- High Resolution Hydrologic Model
- Water Quality Model
- Estuary/Watershed Model
- Ecological Impacts

- Regional Integrated Sciences and
-             Assessments (RISA)
- lOOS Regional Associations
- NOAA Service Offices
- Sea Grant Extension
- Ecosystem Managers
- Water Managers
- Local Agencies

- Outreach/Communications:
- Sea Grant Extension
- Regional Climate Centers
- RISAs
- NOAA Service
-  Offices
- Evaluation Measures
- Unified Web Portals

## Integrated Water Resource Services - FY 2007/08 Activities

**Demonstrate NOAA IWRS in support of the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS) – D. Brandon (Lead)**
- FY 07/08:  IWRS for Arizona (soil moisture observations and forecasts; NOAA West Water Resource Services web site)
- FY 08:  Evaluate improvements in QPE from gap filling radars in Colorado and lessons from HMT-West complex terrain studies
- FY 08:  Complete IWRS plan for Upper Colorado River Basin (incl. soil moisture, snow, flux sensors)
**Leverage NOAA Hydrometeorological Testbed capabilities for IWRS – M. Ralph (Lead)**
- FY07/08:  State-of-the-art precipitation and snow level data from HMT being used to evaluate distributed hydrologic models in complex terrain (DMIP-II)
- FY07/08:  HMT Obs team & equip. capabilities will provide IWRS soil moisture, snow and flux systems and analysis to support Demonstration of IWRS in Central Region with NIDIS & NOAA West
**Collaborate with Water Quality Projects – P. Restrepo (Lead)**
- Delaware River Basin, Lake Michigan, San Francisco Bay National Water Quality Monitoring Network pilots
- NOAA Central and Gulf of Mexico plan for an integrated Mississippi River/Coastal Gulf of Mexico water monitoring system
**Prepare plan for development and testing of the Coastal Estuary River Information System (CERIS) in North Carolina – K. Kelleher (Lead)**
- FY08:  Complete plan for CERIS demonstration in the Carolinas; incl. hi-res hydro modeling, QPE development, assess user needs, evaluate river routing and estuary water quantity models

## Soil Moisture Measurements in HMTand for IWRS Central and West demos

**Soil Moisture Measurements in HMT****and for IWRS Central and West demos**

**Typical Instrumentation:**
- Two Time-Domain Reflectometers (10 cm and 15 cm depth)
- Two Soil Temperature Probes at the same depths
- Temperature and RH (2.0 m AGL)
- Heated Tipping Bucket rain Gage
- 2 min samples gathered in real-time

## Foci
QPE
QPF
Hydrology
Verification
Enhancing & Accelerating Research to Operations
Building Partnerships

_*Foci*_
- QPE
- QPF
- Hydrology
- Verification
- Enhancing & Accelerating Research to Operations
- Building Partnerships

**HMT:  National Testbed Strategy****with Regional Implementation**

## Extreme rainfall:  A challenge for QPF, hydrology and water resourcesVerification: CNRFC and HPC POD and FAR for all events >3”

**Extreme rainfall:  A challenge for ****QPF, hydrology and water resources****Verification: CNRFC and HPC POD and FAR for all events >3”**

## HMT Management & Partnerships

-  Critical Element:  engaging local, state and federal stakeholders...

**Notes:**
 Missing(?): OST

## Gap Filling Scanning Radars: CA demo

**Gap Filling Scanning Radars: CA demo**

## HMT-West 2006 Basin Scale Map

**HMT-West 2006 Basin Scale Map**

**HMT-West 2006 multiple radar coverage**

## Basin Average QPE & Gages

**Basin Average QPE & Gages**

- SR1 & KDAX Overestimation
- Improper Z-R?

- KDAX Underestimation

## HMT-06 IOP 4 CFC X-POL Techniques