H11F:
Using Seasonal Forecasts to Improve Water System Operations Posters

Monday, 15 December 2014: 8:00 AM-12:20 PM
Chairs:  Peter Gijsbers, Deltares, Delft, Netherlands and David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States
Primary Conveners:  Paul Block, University of Wisconsin - Madison, Madison, WI, United States
Co-conveners:  Robert Corby, National Weather Service, West Gulf River Forecast Center, Fort Worth, TX, United States
OSPA Liaisons:  David W Watkins Jr, Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States

Abstracts Submitted to this Session:

0915
 
Improved Water and Energy Management Utilizing Seasonal to Interannual Hydroclimatic Forecasts
Sankarasubramanian Arumugam, NC State Univ-Civil & Env Engr, Raleigh, NC, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
0916
 
Streamflow forecasts on seasonal and interannual time scales for reservoir management
Andrew William Robertson, Columbia University of New York, International Research Institute for Climate and Society, Palisades, NY, United States, Mengqian Lu, Columbia University of New York, Palisades, NY, United States and Upmanu Lall, Columbia Univ, New York, NY, United States
0917
 
A Robust Multimodel Framework for Ensemble Seasonal Hydroclimatic Forecasts
Pablo A Mendoza, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, CO, United States, Balaji Rajagopalan, Univ Colorado, Civil, Environmental, and Architectural Engineering and Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, Boulder, CO, United States, Martyn P Clark, NCAR, Boulder, CO, United States, Gonzalo Cortés, University of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA, United States and James P McPhee, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
0918
 
An improved Multimodel Approach for Global Sea Surface Temperature Forecasts
Rajeshwar Mehrotra1, Mohammad Zaved Kaiser Khan1 and Ashish Sharma2, (1)University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, (2)University of New South Wales, School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Sydney, NSW, Australia
0919
 
Reducing the Need for Accurate Stream Flow Forecasting for Water Supply Planning by Augmenting Reservoir Operations with Seawater Desalination and Wastewater Recycling
Rashi Bhushan and Tze Ling Ng, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong, Hong Kong
0920
 
Using Ensemble Streamflows for Power Marketing at Bonneville Power Administration
Steven B. Barton and Paul Koski, Bonneville Power Administration, Portland, OR, United States
0921
 
On the performance of updating Stochastic Dynamic Programming policy using Ensemble Streamflow Prediction in a snow-covered region
Alexandre Martin1, Pascal Côté2 and Robert Leconte1, (1)University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, Canada, (2)Rio Tinto Alcan, Énergie électrique, Jonquière, QC, Canada
0922
 
Assessing the Value of Improved Hydrologic Forecasting for Hydropower in the Sierra Nevada at Multiple Spatial Scales
David E Rheinheimer1, Roger C Bales1,2, Jay R Lund3 and Joshua H Viers1, (1)University of California Merced, Merced, CA, United States, (2)University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA, United States, (3)University of California Davis, Davis, CA, United States
0923
 
Decomposition of Sources of Errors in Seasonal Streamflow Forecasting over the US Sunbelt
Amirhossein Mazrooei1, Tushar Sinha2, Sujay Kumar3, Christa D Peters-Lidard3 and Sankarasubramanian Arumugam1, (1)NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States, (2)Texas A & M University Kingsville, Kingsville, TX, United States, (3)NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, United States
0924
 
Assessing the Value of Post-processed State-of-the-art Long-term Weather Forecast Ensembles within An Integrated Agronomic Modelling Framework
Yu LI, Andrea Castelletti and Matteo Giuliani, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
0925
 
Informing Water Management by Direct Use of Snow Information as Surrogate of Medium-to-Long Range Streamflow Forecast
SImona Denaro, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, 20133, Italy, Matteo Giuliani, Politecnico di Milano, Milano, Italy and Andrea Castelletti, Polytechnic University of Milan, Milan, Italy
0926
 
Improved Regional Water Management Utilizing Climate Forecasts: An Inter-basin Transfer Model with a Risk Management Framework
Weihua Li, Sankarasubramanian Arumugam, Ranji S Ranjithan and E Downey Brill Jr, NC State University, Raleigh, NC, United States
0927
 
Season-ahead Drought Forecast Models for the Lower Colorado River Authority in Texas
Paul J Block1, Brian Zimmerman1, Matthew Grzegorzewski1, David W Watkins Jr2 and Ronald Anderson3, (1)University of Wisconsin Madison, Madison, WI, United States, (2)Michigan Technological Univ, Houghton, MI, United States, (3)Lower Colorado River Authority, Austin, TX, United States
0928
 
Evaluating National Weather Service Seasonal Forecast Products in Reservoir Operation Case Studies
Ashley Nielson, National Weather Service Salt Lake City, Salt Lake City, UT, 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, Amherst, MA, United States, Kevin Werner, NOAA Seattle, Regional Climate Services, Seattle, WA, United States and Andrew W Wood, National Center for Atmospheric Research, Boulder, CO, United States
 
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