H51P-07
Global and Regional Real-time Systems for Flood and Drought Monitoring and Prediction
Friday, 18 December 2015: 09:30
3020 (Moscone West)
Yang Hong1, Jonathan J Gourley2, Xianwu Xue1, Zac Flamig3 and National Weather Center HyDROS Lab, (1)The University of Oklahoma, Norman, OK, United States, (2)National Severe Storms Lab, Oklahoma City, OK, United States, (3)University of Oklahoma Norman Campus, Norman, OK, United States
Abstract:
A Hydrometeorological Extreme Mapping and Prediction System (HyXtreme-MaP), initially built upon the Coupled Routing and Excess STorage (CREST) distributed hydrological model, is driven by real-time quasi-global TRMM/GPM satellites and by the US Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) radar network with dual-polarimetric upgrade to simulate streamflow, actual ET, soil moisture and other hydrologic variables at 1/8
th degree resolution quasi-globally (
http://eos.ou.edu) and at 250-meter 2.5-mintue resolution over the Continental United States (CONUS:
http://flash.ou.edu). Multifaceted and collaborative by-design, this end-to-end research framework aims to not only integrate data, models, and applications but also
brings people together (i.e., NOAA, NASA, University researchers, and end-users). This presentation will review the progresses, challenges and opportunities of such HyXTREME-MaP System used to monitor global floods and droughts, and also to predict flash floods over the CONUS.
