Real-Time Meteorological Gridded Data: What s New With HEC-RAS Acquisition and Application of Gridded Meteorological Data in Support of the USACE s Real-Time Water Management Mission Fauwaz Hanbali, Tom Evans, & Brett Palmberg USACE Hydrologic Engineering Center ASCE elearning Webinar December 7, 2017 US Army Corps of Engineers Talk Outline Corps Water Management and Real-Time Hydrologic Modeling Gridded Data Sources and Products Gridded Data Acquisition, Management, and Transmittal Summary and Future Investigations Q&A / Discussion 1
Fauwaz Hanbali CORPS WATER MANAGEMENT Corps Water Management System (CWMS) A USACE Tool for Real-Time Decision Support for Water Management Ensures consistent operation across 36 offices. 700+ Multipurpose Reservoirs, Flow Control Structures, and thousands of miles of levees and other structures. To achieve the full range of authorized purposes from all of USACE projects. NWS Forecasts CWMS Real-Time Fully Integrated Hydrologic & Hydraulic Models Streamgage Data Floods to droughts and everything in between. Operational Decisions Inundation Mapping 2
USACE Operating Areas USACE Operating Areas with Snow 3
Modeling Data Needs Rainfall Runoff Precipitation Observed Forecast Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) 24-27 FEB 2004 Snowmelt Runoff Precipitation Observed & Forecast Temperature Observed & Forecast Snow Initial Conditions Modeling Decision Support Snowmelt Runoff Rainfall Runoff Snow Water Equivalent Observed Simulated Flow Simulated Observed Day 1 Day 7 Time of Forecast Flow Oct Time of Forecast Observed Oct Time of Forecast Jul Sep Simulated Jul Sep 4
Near-Term and Seasonal Forecasting Observed Forecast Time of Forecast Near-Term ~ 1Week 7-14 Days Seasonal ~ 1Week 30-180 Days Tom Evans DATA SOURCES & PRODUCTS 5
Gridded Precipitation, Temperature, and Snow Data Sources National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center (NOHRSC) SNOw Data Assimilation System (SNODAS) https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/ NCEP National Centers for Environmental Prediction http://nomads.ncep.noaa.gov/ NDFD National Digital Forecasting Database http://www.nws.noaa.gov/ndfd/ Gridded Data Types and Current Sources to Support Real-Time Hydrologic Modeling NWS Data Sources Gridded Data Type NOHRSC NCEP NDFD Observed Precipitation Forecast Precipitation Observed Air Temperature Forecast Air Temperature Snow Water Equivalent Liquid Water Content (zero) Cold Content (calculated) Cold Content ATI (zero) Meltrate ATI (zero) 6
Data Product Attributes Spatial Resolution: 0.5km to 5km+ Temporal Resolution: 15-minutes to Daily (Most Hourly) Product Update Frequency: Sub-Hourly to Daily (Most Hourly) Forecast Range: 18-Hours (HRRR) to 7+ days Observed Data Latency: About 1 Hour Meteorological Gridded Data Metadata & Decoding Source Product Metadata: Parameter Type & Units Coordinate System Grid Position & Extent Grid Cell Size Time Interval Time Window HEC-DSS (Data Storage System) Gridded Record Metadata 7
Gridded Data Transformation IN: Format: GRIB/NetCDF/XMRG Scale: National/RFC Coordinates: HRAP/Lambert/Lat-Lon Out: Format: HEC-DSS Scale: Watershed Coordinates: USACE Albers (SHG) SWE for Beaver River 18 Feb 2014 0600 UTC Values: Min: 12 mm Max: 65 mm Background: ESRI Street Map 8
Brett Palmberg DATA MANAGEMENT Data Acquisition and Transmittal NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center NOAA National Center for Environmental Predictions Data Sources NWS River Forecast Center NOAA National Center Data Delivery Points USACE Office USACE Computing Center Illustration Source Code Attribution: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4342045 9
Data Acquisition and Transmittal NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center NOAA National Center for Environmental Predictions Data Sources NWS River Forecast Center NOAA National Center Data Delivery Points USACE Office USACE Computing Center Illustration Source Code Attribution: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4342045 Data Acquisition and Transmittal Data Sources NWS River Forecast Center NOAA National Center Data Delivery Points USACE Office USACE Computing Center NOAA National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing Center NOAA National Center for Environmental Predictions Illustration Source Code Attribution: https://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/4342045 10
Data Management: Architecture District Offices Scale: Watershed Scale: CONUS National Service Format: DSS Format: Many GRIB.bil Processing Archiving Logging NetCDF XMRG Data Management: Future Development Share tools and products Test Cloud-Based Solution Robust monitoring and support team Investigate new data storage formats 11
SUMMARY Corps Meteorological Data Application Relying on the National Weather Service for data products that drive our Water Management operational decision-making Continually acquiring new improved products and adapting to them as they become available 12
Gridded Meteorological Products 1990 1995 2000 2005 2010 2015 2020 Near Future : MRMS Dataset Deployed operationally to NWS (2016). Cooperative Institute for Mesoscale Meteorological Studies (CIMMS) and University of Oklahoma MRMS QPE Product based on: Expanded rain gauge network Most advanced radar technology 13
Near Future : GOES-R http://www.goes-r.gov/multimedia/dataandimageryimages.html http://www.goes-r.gov/products/baseline.html Four-satellite program GOES-R/GOES-S/GOES-T/GOES-U NOAA & NASA collaborative effort Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) ABI improves every product from the previous GOES imager and introduces a host of new products Relevant Products High resolution storm imagery Skin Temperature Snow Cover QPE Fauwaz.U.Hanbali@usace.army.mil Thomas.A.Evans@usace.army.mil Brett.T.Palmberg@usace.army.mil Q&A / DISCUSSION 14