OHD/HL - presentations: DOH Conf. 2000 agenda

AGENDA
Annual Hydrology Program Science Conference
August 8-11, 2000

Tuesday, August 8

8:00 Opening Comments - George Smith

8:15 Review of Action Items from last HSD/HIC/DOH meeting

9:00 RFC Priorities, perspectives and experiences

• ABRFC
• AKRFC
• CBRFC
• CNRFC
• LMRFC
• MARFC

12:00 Lunch

1:00 RFC Priorities, perspectives and experiences

• MBRFC
• NCRFC
• NERFC
• NWRFC
• OHRFC
• SERFC
• WGRFC

4:30 Future coordination of RFC development - Page

5:00 Adjourn

6:30 Social Evening at George Smith's place (rain date - August 9)

Wednesday, August 9

8:00 AHPS Priorities for FY2000, FY2001 and beyond - Ingram

9:00 AHPS Science Issues - Schaake

• ESP Preprocessor
• ESP Postprocessor
• Reservoir inflow and outflow forecasts with uncertainty
• Ensemble prediction for large river systems
• Products for users
• How to reduce operations work load
• Historical data issues

9:30 Development of a Hydrology Program Science Strategy - Schaake

10:00 Break

10:15 Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting

• QPF Plan - Graziano
• HRL - Schaake
• HPC - TBD
• CPC - TBD
• EMC - Mitchell/Toth/Tracton

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Quantitative Precipitation Estimation - Fulton

• WSR-88D PPS
• RFC-Wide MPE

2:45 Break

3:00 Hydrologic Modeling - Smith

• Distributed modeling / DMIP
• Synthetic UH - linear routing - Muskingum Cunge operation
• A priori parameter estimation
• Reformulated SAC Potential evaporation issues
• GIS calibration system
• Frozen ground
• Hydrograph separation analyses
• Diagnostic water budget analyses

5:00 Adjourn

Thursday, August 10

8:00 Hydrologic Forecasting - Smith/Schaake

• Data assimilation / operational state variable updating
• ESP Post Processor (Error Model)

9:00 Flash Flood and Site Specific - Smith/Welles

• WHFS Site specific
• Computation of FFG
• FF Potential

10:00 Break

10:15 River Mechanics - Sylvestre

GIS applications

• Flood plain mapping
• Cross Section Utility
• Dam Catalog

FLDWAV enhancements

• Sediment transport
• Pollutant transport

Modeling Improvements

• Seasonal Manning's n
• Effect of ice on flood flows
• Modeling wide Floodplains

Calibration tools

• FLDINP
• FLDWAV Analysis Tool

12:00 Lunch

1:00 Training - Helble

• Basic hydrology course for WFO
• Additional OH workshops
• Other training needs

2:30 Break

2:45 Hydrologic Data - Bonnin

• Missing daily observation time estimates
• Historical precipitation analyses / data
• Automatic consistency analyses
• Historical data QC
• Standard archive database
• Coordination of RFC and WFO databases

Friday, August 11

8:00 Operations

• Visualization tools
• Monitoring tools
• Data issues, including QC
• Verification
• Operational mods and effect on ESP runs
• Hydrologic day definition
• Product dissemination

10:00 Break

10:15 Collaboration with NCEP - Schaake/Mitchell

• Land surface modeling
• Land Data Assimilation System (LDAS)
• Ensemble forecast applications
• Short term QPF and PQPF
• Precipitation data, analysis and QC

11:00 Review of Action Items and strategy for future scientific development

12:00 Adjourn