Session: Flood prediction, analysis, decision support, & management, Part I (96th American Meteorological Society Annual Meeting)

Tuesday, 12 January 2016: 1:30 PM-3:00 PM

Room 242 ( New Orleans Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)

Host: 30th Conference on Hydrology

Cochairs:

J.J. Gourley, NOAA/NSSL, Norman, OK and Thomas Adams, NOAA/NWS, Ohio River Forecast Center, Wilmington, OH

A number of new regional and national real-time flood forecasting systems are emerging for a variety of applications. These new systems are taking advantage of new national hydrologic data standards, new advances in supercomputing availability and improvements in model parameterizations and meteorological forcing datasets. This session encourages contributions from academic, government and the private sector groups who have built and deployed such systems. Additionally, contributions are welcome from researchers who have developed novel methodologies to sense and model fast response dynamics including very high resolution hydraulics models. Presentations on hydrologic data assimilation methodologies for flood prediction and presentations summarizing results from recent real-time flood prediction projects such as the NOAA Flash Flood and intense Rainfall (FFaiR) experiment and National Flood Interoperability Experiment (NFIE) among others are also encouraged. Please contact the Program Chairs, David Gochis (gochis@ucar.edu), J.J. Gourley (jj.gourley@noaa.gov) and Thomas Adams (thomas.adams@noaa.gov) for additional information.

Papers:

1:30 PM

4.1

Iowa Real-Time Flood Forecasting System

Witold F. Krajewski, Univ. of Iowa, Iowa City, IA

Recorded Presentation

1:45 PM

4.2

Hydrologic Modeling at the National Water Center: Operational Implementation of the WRF-Hydro Model to support National Weather Service Hydrology

Brian Cosgrove, NWS/Office of Water Prediction, Silver Spring, MD; and D. J. Gochis, E. Clark, Z. Cui, A. Dugger, G. Fall, X. Feng, M. A. Fresch, J. J. Gourley, S. Khan, D. Kitzmiller, H. Lee, Y. Liu, J. McCreight, A. Newman, A. Oubeidillah, L. Pan, C. Pham, F. Salas, K. Sampson, G. Sood, M. B. Smith, A. W. Wood, D. Yates, W. Yu, and Y. Zhang

Recorded Presentation

2:00 PM

4.3

Toward estimating the probability of flood severity over the United States

Pierre-Emmanuel Kirstetter, NOAA/NSSL / Univ. of Oklahoma, Norman, OK; and H. Vergara, J. J. Gourley, and Z. L. Flamig

2:15 PM

4.4

River Ice and Flood Detection Products Derived from Suomi NPP VIIRS Satellite Data to Support 2015 Hydrologic Forecast Operations in Alaska

Melissa Kreller, NOAA/NWSFO, Fairbanks, AK; and E. W. Plumb, E. Holloway, and S. Li

Recorded Presentation

2:30 PM

4.5