Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop (CPASW) The William and Ida Friday Center Chapel Hill, NC March 6, 2008 Integrated Water Resource Products for Drought in North Carolina Mark S. Brooks and Ryan P. Boyles State Climate Office of North Carolina NC State University

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Who Are We? The State Climate Office is where University researchers, extension scientists, government agencies (state and federal) come together to work on North Carolina weather and climate related issues. Applied group Housed at NCSU

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, The Need for Water Resource Data Economically important Socially important Monitor conditions Policy Decision support

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Water Resource Data in NC Many different data sources Many different parameters Many different formats No one place to get it all (until now)

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, and so was born, CRONOS H 2 O One digital database, one format, one interface Multiple sources: –USGS –NC DWR –USACE –Duke Energy –TVA –NWS COOP (precip)

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Lets put this into context CRONOS –Climate Retrieval and Observations Network of the Southeast –Digital database of surface weather –Eleven weather networks, over 3700 stations –Launched in 2003

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, CRONOS H 2 O CRONOS + water data –Streamflow –Reservoir levels –Groundwater levels –Precipitation –Percentiles

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, CRONOS H 2 O Interface Designed with Joe Q. Public in mind –while serving needs of advanced users Integrated with CRONOS (weather)

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Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Reflections CRONOS H2O been online since Jan 2007 Already being used as a monitoring tool Designed for (un)sophisticated users Conceptual / working model for larger geographic extent

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Looking Ahead Expand domain to include Tenn. Valley seven-states Evaluate societal and economic value & impacts Overlay usage data Innovative products and decision-support tools MPE grid / precip normals grid

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, Acknowledgements NC Division of Water Resources –Tom Fransen, Charles Theobald, Wenli Chen, Nat Wilson USGS –Nelson Williams, Ramona Traynor, Jeanne Robbins, Karen Ford US ACE –Terry Brown Duke Energy –Scott Holland, Arthur Snuggs State Climate Office colleagues –Ashley Frazier, Sherri Pugh, Bryan Aldridge, Aaron Sims, Sethu Raman

Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop Chapel Hill, NC - March 6, CRONOS H 2 O Questions? Mark Brooks