Long Range Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
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Transcript Long Range Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
Western Water Supply
Kevin Werner, Andrew Murray, WR/SSD
Jay Breidenbach, WFO Boise
Cass Goodman, Steve Shumate, CBRFC
Alan Takamoto, Scott Staggs, CNRFC
Don Laurine, NWRFC
Chad Kahler, WFO Tucson
Outline
Western Water Supply
History
Project overview
Westwide map
Forecast evolution
Verification
Ensemble services
Future enhancements
Climate variability and change
Short range ensembles services
Western Water Supply Forecasts
Forecasts for spring runoff
amounts from snow melt
dominated basins in western
US
Routinely produced at 6 RFCs
and coordinated with other
agencies (NRCS and
California DWR)
NWS forecast program began
in 1940s
Primary forecast tools:
Ensemble Streamflow
Prediction
Multivariate Linear
Regression
Legacy Water Supply Forecast
Product (Credit: NRCS / NOAA)
Project in a Nutshell
Goals:
A “one stop shop” for NWS water information at the seasonal timescale
Consistent presentation of products between RFCs
Harness collective innovation from multiple offices
Users:
Existing Water Supply forecast users
Strong support from USBR and state water resources agencies for
examples
Groups with cross basin interests (e.g. media, power companies)
NWS internal users
Major Components:
Map: Single map for all western WS forecasts from 6 RFCs
Forecast evolution: Plotting capability to show evolution of current year
forecast and observed river flow
Verification: Forecast evaluation from past forecasts and forecast tools
Ensemble services: Interaction capability with ensemble streamflow
predication
Project in a Nutshell (con’t)
Milestones (past):
April 2005: Working group formed, planning meeting held
January 2006: Initial website launched
September 2006: Included AB, WG, and MB RFCs in development
January 2007: Common database developed
March 2007: Launched outreach effort and included SHs
Milestones (future):
August 2007: Launch verification 1.0 capabilities
September 2007: Move software to NWRFC web farm
October 2007: Launch forecast evolution 2.0
October 2007: Launch ensemble services 1.0
January 2008: Integrate WGRFC data
2008?: Integrate climate change capabilities
Map
www.cbrfc.noaa.gov/westernwater
“One Stop Shop” for NWS water
supply forecasts
Flexible and consistent map
presence across western USA
Zoomable to basin scale
Mouse over capability for forecast
values
Forecast Evolution
Evolution of current year forecast
and observed streamflow
Options to include:
Normal streamflow volume
Forecast window
Forecast accumulation
Accumulated Observed, etc…
Originally developed at NWRFC
Version 2.0 contract development
work proceeding
Add ESP forecasts
Add interactive features
Forecast Verification
Goal: Provide users of all types with forecast verification information
Easy to understand
Meaningful
Accessible from forecasts
Dynamically generated plots from database
Data Visualization
Error
MAE, RMSE, etc
Conditional on
Lead time, year
Skill
Categorical
Skill relative to
Climatology
Traditional (NWS) verification including FAR
and POD
Conditional
Category definitions tied to climatology
values (e.g. mean flow, terciles, etc.) or user
definable
Plot credit: Chad Kahler
Ensemble Services
Goals:
Intuitive user interface for current ensemble forecast
Access to archived streamflow data for perspective
Dynamic, flexible plots
Access to underlying data and database
Climate change scenarios
Climate Change
Latest IPCC report confirms
“temperatures averaged over
all habitable continents … will
very likely rise at greater than
the global average rate in the
next 50 years and by an
amount substantially in excess
of natural variability.” (IPCC
WR1, 2007)
Source: IPCC, 2007
Trends in 1 Apr SWE over the 1960–2002 (left) and 1950-1997
(right) periods of record directly from snow course observations
from Mote (2006) and Mote et al. (2005) respectively.
Extend NWS Product Suite?
Years
Climate Change
based run off
scenarios?
Current product suite covers hours to seasons;
Should we consider climate change scenarios and build
multi-year products for run-off, temperature, precipitation?
User requirements from power companies, USBR, etc for
climate change scenarios
Water Supply with
Climate Change
Many in water community are asking for it
Idea: Provide scenario based water supply outlooks in the context of
historical data and current season forecasts
Include uncertainty
Temperature, precipitation, and/or lead time based scenarios
Ultimately link scenarios to atmospheric carbon based scenarios
Leverage historical simulation capabilities in ESP
Leveraging ESP for long range scenarios
Multiple “historical simulation” runs:
Use historical basin temperature and precipitation time series
Build ensemble by repeatedly shifting year order by one
Incorporate scenarios through additive (temperature) or
multiplicative (precipitation) year-wise adjustments
ENSEMBLE FORECAST SERVICES
Forecast Point: Columbia River at the Dalles Dam
Archive
Current Forecast
Climate Change
Options
O Normal Runoff
O Ensemble Streamflow
Prediction O Ensemble
members by forcing
year(s)
O Year (slider bar 20102050)
O Accumulate over
period
O Temperature (slider
bar -5 F - +5 F)
O Plot Type (box and
whisker, bar, lines, etc.)
O Carbon Scenario
O Data
O Model Normal
O Historical Year(s)
O Ensemble members
by ENSO
O Plot interval (set axes
limits)
Summary
Western Water Supply
History
Current capabilities
Coming enhancements
Verification
Water Supply ensemble services
Climate Change
Thank You
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