Thursday, 15 January 2004: 4:45 PM
Sparse Matrix Techniques for Coupling Independent Hydrological and Meteorological Models
Room 607
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Grid-to-grid, grid-to-watershed, and similar geospatial
transforms can very efficiently be realized by sparse
matrix technology. Such transforms are particularly useful
for the grid cell to/from watershed mappings needed for
coupling watershed-based hydrological models with grid-cell
based meteorological models. We have used these transforms
for coupling the TOPLATS hydrological model with both the MM5
meteorological model and the NEXRAD Stage IV precipitation
analyses, and for various other model couplings. We
describe the advantages of this technique, as compared with
other techniques, which frequently are purely grid-based.
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