1. IWRSS & Fusion Team Brief Missouri Basin River Forecasters’ Meeting Wednesday, January 29, 2014 Noreen Schwein National Hydrologic Services Policy Leader NWS Office of Weather, Water and Climate Hydrologic Services Branch

2. Integrated Water Resources Science and Services (IWRSS) “An innovative partnership of federal agencies with complementary operational missions in water science, observation, prediction and management.” 2

3.  Consortium led by tri-agency Governance Board ◦ USACE- James Dalton, NOAA/NWS - Don Cline, USGS - Jerad Bales ◦ Signed MOU in May 2011  IWRSS Teams - 2 members from each agency Requirements, Design and Implementation  Two teams completed requirements ◦ Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM) Team ◦ Interoperability and Data Synchronization (IDS) Team  To be chartered this year: ◦ National Water Modeling requirements team ◦ IDS design team ◦ FIM design team 3

4.  Tasked with addressing “low hanging fruit” data issues USGS NWIS/Rating Depot Enhancements:  Ratings and Datum corrections synchronized to NWIS every 15 minutes, for all USGS Water Science Centers.  NWIS Rating Depot user interface modified to allow querying in tenths of hours  NWIS Web interface now supports querying by NWS Hydrologic Service Area (HSA). (NWS River Forecast Center and USACE District/Division token to follow by Jan 28) NWS Hydrometeorological Automated Data System (HADS) Response:  Query Rating Depot at 15-minute interval to synchronize offset/shifts. 4

5. OGC WaterML2.0-2 Interoperability Experiment  USGS leading the US participation in the International Community development of rating data model standard ◦ USGS will establish demonstration “server” in FY2014 ◦ NWS and USACE IDS members to qualitatively evaluate the data stream and data model for rating information. Update DECODES software  USGS to establish data service via rating depot/NWIS  USACE to leverage the DECODES enhancements 5

6.  Catalyst for the IWRSS partnership  Unique, innovative environment  Building undergoing final completions (Feb 7) ◦ IT installations begin week of Feb 10 ◦ Congressionally mandated/funded  NOAA/NWS working through process of initial staffing plans  USGS plans to have some staff placed in near term 6

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8.  Operations Center with Situation Rooms ◦ National analyses and forecasts of soil moisture, evapotranspiration, and snow pack ◦ Real-Time Dynamic Flood Inundation Mapping  Geo-Intelligence Laboratory  Collaborative Science and Software Engineering Studio  Systems Proving Ground ◦ Dedicated facility to test new capabilities ◦ Accelerate deployment from research to operations  Distance Learning Classroom and Auditorium 8 http://www.nws.noaa.gov/oh/nwc/

9. Mission: Work collaboratively to “improve the accuracy and utility of river/rainfall observations and river forecasts.” Focus Areas 2013:  Data accuracy and accessibility ◦ Ratings Team  Forecast Evaluation and Improvement Team ◦ The FEIT  Communication and Products Team 9

10.  Test site Hermann, MO due to significant impact at St. Louis  USACE/NWS goal to be within 2% of each other based on similar range used by USGS in their measurements noted as “good” with rating within 2-5% of measurement  Expanding effort to Smithville Dam (Ohio R.), Chester, IL and L&D22 (Mississippi)  Looking forward to the IWRSS IDS Team results 10

11.  Action team – the FEIT ◦ Developed process and common metrics to review specific events and annual trends  Specific events reviewed for 5 locations: Hermann, St. Louis, L&D 22, Valley City and Baton Rouge ◦ Findings used to guide path of Fusion Team ◦ Have the following years data for trend analysis:  Pre-Fusion Team: 2005-2008  Post-Fusion Team: 2009-present 11

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14.  Address continued improvements for effective interagency communication  Improve understanding of agency products and information ◦ Support risk-based decision making at the federal level ◦ Effectively communicate products/information to stakeholders at the state and local level  Short term goal ◦ Focus on probabilistic river forecast 14

15.  Address interagency assessment recommendations  Be resource to IWRSS teams  Continue to analyze forecasts for accuracy and to guide team direction  Share Fusion Team Best Practices in other interagency forums across the country (tri-agency, Silver Jackets, etc)  Continue cross-agency familiarization including forecaster workshops  Produce annual reports ◦ Available on website 15

16. Questions?????? Noreen Schwein noreen.schwein@noaa.gov 816-268-3147 16