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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 11 The Hydrologic.

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1 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 11 The Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS)

2 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 2 Meteorological Forecasts in ESP Meteorological Ensemble Forecast Processor (MEFP) Correct forcing bias Merge in time Downscale (basin) WPC/RFC forecasts (1-5 days) GEFS forecasts (1-15 days) CFSv2 forecasts (16-270 days) Climatology (271+ days) Hydrologic models (CHPS) Bias-corrected ensemble flow forecasts Flow bias / uncertainty accounting NWS and external user applications (MEFP forcing also available to users) = forcing unc. = hydro. unc. = users Ensemble Post- Processor (EnsPost) Correct flow bias Add spread to account for hydro. model uncertainty

3 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 3 Global Ensemble Forecast System (GEFS) short term forecast 15 days out precipitation and temperature max/min comes as gridded product 1 degree resolution use the average of the GEFS 20 traces reforecasts available for 1985-2010 http://www.emc.ncep.noa a.gov/GEFS/faq.php

4 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 4 Climate Forecast System (CFSv2) long term forecast out 9 months (270 days) precipitation and temperature max/min comes as gridded product 1 degree resolution use the lagged ensemble mean reforecasts available for 1982-2011 http://cfs.ncep.noaa.gov/c fsv2.info

5 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 5 GEFS and CFSv2 Processing Meteorological Ensemble Forecast Processor Parameter Estimator (MEFPPE) H istorical Observations, precipitation and max/min temperature, are statically related to GEFS and CFSv2 hindcasts to develop a bivariate relationship Parameters used in forecast process One time process Tries to preserve space time relationships Forecast Observed Joint distribution Model Space x fcst X Y … Ensemble members for that particular time step x1x1 xnxn NQT -1 xixi xnxn Ensemble forecast Probability 1 x1x1 0 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/hrl/general/HEFS_doc/Aug_2014_Seminar/Seminar_D_MEFP_Theory.pdf

6 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 6 GEFS Temperature MAX Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

7 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 7 GEFS Temperature MAX Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

8 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 8 GEFS Temperature MIN Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

9 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 9 GEFS Temperature MIN Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

10 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 10 GEFS Precipitation Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

11 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 11 GEFS Precipitation Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

12 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 12 CFSv2 Temperature MAX Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

13 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 13 CFS Temperature MAX Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

14 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 14 CFSv2 Temperature MIN Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

15 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 15 CFS Temperature MIN Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

16 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 16 CFSv2 Precipitation Skill Green: Warren Bridge Elk: MilnerEast: AlmontAnimas: Durango Lower Mid Upper

17 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 17 CFS Precipitation Skill Zuni: Black RockTonto: RooseveltGila: Gila Lower Mid Upper

18 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 18 GEFS and CFSv2 in Stream Forecast Forcings created by MEFP are used in ESP Output is a standard mean daily flow This is the Hydrologic Ensemble Forecast Service (HEFS)

19 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 19 April - July Volume HEFS Skill Green Warren Bridge JanuaryFebruary MarchApril <90%90-50%50-10%>10%<90%90-50%50-10%>10% number of observations

20 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 20 ESP Evolution Climatology vs CFSv2

21 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 21 April - July Volume HEFS Skill Elk - Milner JanuaryFebruary MarchApril <90%90-50%50-10%>10%<90%90-50%50-10%>10% number of observations

22 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 22 ESP Evolution Climatology vs CFSv2

23 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 23 April - July Volume HEFS Skill East - Almont JanuaryFebruary MarchApril <90%90-50%50-10%>10%<90%90-50%50-10%>10% number of observations

24 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 24 ESP Evolution Climatology vs CFSv2

25 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 25 April - July Volume HEFS Skill Animas - Durango JanuaryFebruary MarchApril <90%90-50%50-10%>10%<90%90-50%50-10%>10% number of observations

26 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 26 ESP Evolution Climatology vs CFSv2

27 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 27 ESP Evolution Climatology vs CFSv2

28 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 28 Initial Conclusions / More Questions Little, if any, skill added with GEFS/CFS forecast not unexpected given not much skill in CFSv2 need to develop better CFSv2 forecast smoothing Need to do more analysis on a monthly scale Similar results in Lower Basin when adding GEFS/CFS still need to run hindcasts How does CFS forecast fare when looking at ENSO signal limited sample size so it will be difficult to draw any conclusions from In general more skillful long range forecasts are needed to fully utilize HEFS framework.

29 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 29 Questions

30 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 30 Post Adjusting Ensemble Streamflow Forecasts Evaluating two methods Ensemble Post-processor (EnsPost) daily time step can have different parameters for different times of year John Schaake method monthly time step each month has a separate adjustment factor Objective adjust ensemble stream flows to remove bias from calibration in a repeatable way

31 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 31 EnsPost EnsPost (“flow processor”) Does two things to flow forecast 1.Adds spread to account for hydrologic model errors 2.Corrects systematic biases Uses linear regression between observed flow and historical simulated flow (observed forcing) Scatter around line of best fit represents the hydrologic error (i.e. no forcing uncertainty) Prior observation (“persistence”) also included in regression (not shown here) Observed flow (normalized units), Z obs (t+1) Simulated flow (normalized units), Z mod (t+1)

32 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 32 April - July Volume Post Adjustment Skill

33 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 33 April - July Volume Post Adjustment Skill

34 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 34 April - July Volume Post Adjustment Skill

35 National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s National Weather Service Colorado Basin River Forecast Center Salt Lake City, Utah 35 April - July Volume Post Adjustment Skill

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