H11F:
Using Seasonal Forecasts to Improve Water System Operations Posters
Session ID#: 3444
Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Not an Option (Moscone West)
Chairs: Peter Gijsbers, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands and David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States
Primary Convener: Paul J Block, University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States
Co-Convener: Robert Corby, National Weather Service, West Gulf River Forecast Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States
OSPA Liaison: David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States
Co-Sponsor(s):
Virtual Option?: No
Abstracts Submitted to this Session:
Streamflow forecasts on seasonal and interannual time scales for reservoir management (Invited) (3779)
Andrew William Robertson, Center for Climate Systems Research @NASA GISS, New York, United States, Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia University, Earth and Environmental Engineering, New York, United States
A Robust Multimodel Framework for Ensemble Seasonal Hydroclimatic Forecasts (9515)
Pablo A Mendoza, Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Santiago, Chile, Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, United States, Martyn P Clark, University of Calgary, Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Civil Engineering, Calgary, AB, Canada, Gonzalo Cortés, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James P McPhee, Universidad de Chile, Department of Civil Engineering, Santiago, Chile
An improved Multimodel Approach for Global Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts (11823)
Rajeshwar Mehrotra, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia, Mohammad Amir Khan, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia and Ashish Sharma, University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia
Assessing the skill of seasonal forecasting of streamflow and drought in the Limpopo basin, Southern Africa (32154)
Micha Werner1,2, Patricia Trambauer1, Hessel Winsemius2, Shreedhar Maskey1, Emanuel N Dutra3 and Florian Pappenberger4, (1)UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Water Science and Engineering, Delft, Netherlands, (2)Deltares, Delft, Netherlands, (3)European Center for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom, (4)European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts, Reading, United Kingdom
On the performance of updating Stochastic Dynamic Programming policy using Ensemble Streamflow Prediction in a snow-covered region (16169)
Alexandre Martin1, Coté Pascal2 and Robert Leconte1, (1)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (2)Rio Tinto Alcan, Énergie électrique, Jonquière, QC, Canada
Assessing the Value of Improved Hydrologic Forecasting for Hydropower in the Sierra Nevada at Multiple Spatial Scales (18187)
David E Rheinheimer1, Roger C Bales1,2, Jay R Lund3 and Joshua H Viers4, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Berkeley, United States, (3)Center of Watershed Sciences, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States, (4)Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Merced, United States
Decomposition of Sources of Errors in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting over the US Sunbelt (21803)
Amir Hossein Mazrooei, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, Tushar Sinha, Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States, Sujay V Kumar, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Hydrological Sciences Laboratory, Greenbelt, MD, United States, Christa D Peters-Lidard, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Sciences and Exploration Directorate, Greenbelt, United States and Sankar Arumugam, North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States
Assessing the Value of Post-processed State-of-the-art Long-term Weather Forecast Ensembles within An Integrated Agronomic Modelling Framework (22110)
Yu LI1, Andrea Castelletti Prof2 and Matteo Giuliani2, (1)Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy
Informing Water Management by Direct Use of Snow Information as Surrogate of Medium-to-Long Range Streamflow Forecast (22278)
Simona Denaro1, Matteo Giuliani2 and Andrea Castelletti Prof2, (1)Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy, (2)Politecnico di Milano, Department of Electronics, Information, and Bioengineering, Milano, Italy
Improved Regional Water Management Utilizing Climate Forecasts: An Inter-basin Transfer Model with a Risk Management Framework (25740)
Weihua Li1, Sankar Arumugam2, Ranji S Ranjithan3 and E Downey Brill Jr1, (1)NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)North Carolina State University Raleigh, Department of Civil, Construction, and Environmental Engineering, Raleigh, NC, United States, (3)NC State University, Raleigh, United States
Season-ahead Drought Forecast Models for the Lower Colorado River Authority in Texas (30946)
Paul J Block1, Brian Zimmerman2, Matthew Grzegorzewski2, David W Watkins Jr3 and Mr. Ronald Anderson, P.E., MBA, D. WRE.4, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Madison, United States, (2)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (3)Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, United States, (4)Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX, United States
Evaluating National Weather Service Seasonal Forecast Products in Reservoir Operation Case Studies (31531)
Ashley Nielson, National Weather Service Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, United States, Rebecca Guihan, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Melrose, MA, United States, Austin Polebistki, University of Wisconsin Platteville, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Platteville, WI, United States, Richard N Palmer, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Amherst, United States, Kevin Werner, NOAA Seattle, Regional Climate Services, Seattle, WA, United States and Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, CGD Laboratory, Boulder, CO, United States
