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Experiment:
Leveraging Partnerships to explore the
future of flood forecasting
David R. Maidment
Center for Research in Water Resources
University of Texas at Austin
Edward Clark
National Water Center
NOAA/National Weather Service
Scientific excellence and innovation driving water prediction and decisions for a
water-resilient nation.
Mission:
The NWC collaboratively researches, develops and delivers state-of-the
science, National hydrologic analyses, forecast information, data, decisionsupport services and guidance to support and inform essential emergency
services and water management decisions.
7/21/2015
PRE-
The Email
Proposed by Dr. Maidment:
A real-time flood inundation and mapping
facility running for the CONUS in a
demonstration mode
Why People
On Average, more people die annually from flooding than from
any other form of natural disaster
Spatial Distribution of
Flood Fatalities 2007-2013
(source: NWS StormDat)
Goals
National Flood Interoperability Experiment
Close the gap between national flood forecasting
and local emergency response
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Proposed
Normal
Medium
High
NFIE-Geo:
National
geospatial
framework for
hydrology
NFIE-Response:
Wide area planning
for flood
emergency
response
NFIE-Hydro:
National high
spatial resolution
hydrologic
forecasting
NFIE-River: River
channel information
and real-time flood
inundation mapping
NHDPlus Version 2
Geospatial foundation for a national water data infrastructure
NHDPlus
2.67 million reach catchments in US
average area 3 km2
reach length 2 km
Uniquely labelled
National Flood
Hazard Layer
Feature classes:
NFIE-Geo
9 feature classes
5 from NHDPlus
4 from IWRSS
NHDPlus
Subwatershed (HUC12)
Catchment
Flowline
Waterbody
Streamgage
Low water
crossing on
Bear Creek
21
Catchmentlevel forecasts
Weather
Precipitation
Streamflow
Runoff
WRF-Hydro
Land-Atmosphere Model (NOAH-MP)
Deterministic
flood maps
Probabilistic
flood maps
Forecasts produced by
Proposed in NFIE
Harry Evans
Austin Fire Dept
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ympaR6YUxiA&feature=youtube