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IWRSS & Fusion Team BriefMissouri Basin River Forecasters’ Meeting
Wednesday, January 29, 2014
Noreen SchweinNational Hydrologic Services Policy LeaderNWS Office of Weather, Water and Climate
Hydrologic Services Branch
GOAL 1Integrate Services and Service Delivery
GOAL 2Increase Accuracy and Lead Time of River Forecasts
GOAL 3Provide New Summit-to-Sea High-resolution Water Resources Information and Forecasts
Integrated Water Resources Science and Services (IWRSS)
“An innovative partnership of federal agencies with complementary operational missions in water science, observation, prediction and management.”
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Consortium led by tri-agency Governance Board◦ USACE- James Dalton, NOAA/NWS - Don Cline, USGS - Jerad
Bales◦ Signed MOU in May 2011
IWRSS Teams - 2 members from each agency Requirements, Design and Implementation
Two teams completed requirements◦ Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) Team◦ Interoperability and Data Synchronization (IDS) Team
To be chartered this year:◦ National Water Modeling requirements team◦ IDS design team◦ FIM design team
IWRSS
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Tasked with addressing “low hanging fruit” data issues
USGS NWIS/Rating Depot Enhancements: Ratings and Datum corrections synchronized to NWIS every 15
minutes, for all USGS Water Science Centers. NWIS Rating Depot user interface modified to allow querying in
tenths of hours NWIS Web interface now supports querying by NWS Hydrologic
Service Area (HSA). (NWS River Forecast Center and USACE District/Division token to follow by Jan 28)
NWS Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS) Response: Query Rating Depot at 15-minute interval to synchronize
offset/shifts.
IDS Team Accomplishments
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OGC WaterML2.0-2 Interoperability Experiment USGS leading the US participation in the International
Community development of rating data model standard◦ USGS will establish demonstration “server” in FY2014◦ NWS and USACE IDS members to qualitatively evaluate the data
stream and data model for rating information.
Update DECODES software USGS to establish data service via rating depot/NWIS USACE to leverage the DECODES enhancements
IDS Team Work in Progress
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Catalyst for the IWRSS partnership Unique, innovative environment Building undergoing final completions (Feb 7)
◦ IT installations begin week of Feb 10◦ Congressionally mandated/funded
NOAA/NWS working through process of initial staffing plans
USGS plans to have some staff placed in near term
IWRSS – National Water Center
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IWRSS – National Water Center
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Operations Center with Situation Rooms
◦ National analyses and forecasts of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and snow pack◦ Real-Time Dynamic Flood Inundation Mapping
Geo-Intelligence Laboratory Collaborative Science and Software Engineering Studio Systems Proving Ground
◦ Dedicated facility to test new capabilities◦ Accelerate deployment from research to operations
Distance Learning Classroom and Auditorium
IWRSS – National Water Center Major programmatic functions
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http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/nwc/
Mission: Work collaboratively to “improve the accuracy and utility of river/rainfall observations and river forecasts.”
Focus Areas 2013:
Data accuracy and accessibility◦ Ratings Team
Forecast Evaluation and Improvement Team◦ The FEIT
Communication and Products Team
Fusion Team http://mvs-wc.mvs.usace.army.mil/fusion/fusion.htm
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Test site Hermann, MO due to significant impact at St. Louis
USACE/NWS goal to be within 2% of each other based on similar range used by USGS in their measurements noted as “good” with rating within 2-5% of measurement
Expanding effort to Smithville Dam (Ohio R.), Chester, IL and L&D22 (Mississippi)
Looking forward to the IWRSS IDS Team results
Rating Curve Action Team
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Action team – the FEIT◦ Developed process and common metrics to
review specific events and annual trends Specific events reviewed for 5 locations: Hermann,
St. Louis, L&D 22, Valley City and Baton Rouge◦ Findings used to guide path of Fusion Team◦ Have the following years data for trend analysis:
Pre-Fusion Team: 2005-2008 Post-Fusion Team: 2009-present
Forecast Evaluation & Improvements
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Forecast Evaluation & Improvements Team (FEIT)
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MBRFC analysis
USACE/MVS analysis
Forecast Accuracy Trends(2005-2012)
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Address continued improvements for effective interagency communication
Improve understanding of agency products and information◦ Support risk-based decision making at the federal level◦ Effectively communicate products/information to
stakeholders at the state and local level Short term goal
◦ Focus on probabilistic river forecast
Communication and Products team
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Address interagency assessment recommendations Be resource to IWRSS teams Continue to analyze forecasts for accuracy and to guide
team direction Share Fusion Team Best Practices in other interagency
forums across the country (tri-agency, Silver Jackets, etc) Continue cross-agency familiarization including
forecaster workshops Produce annual reports
◦ Available on website
Fusion Team – Path Forwardhttp://mvs-wc.mvs.usace.army.mil/fusion/fusion.htm
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