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Climate Prediction Application Science Workshop (CPASW)The William and Ida Friday Center
Chapel Hill, NCMarch 6, 2008
Integrated Water Resource Products for
Drought in North Carolina
Mark S. Brooks and Ryan P. Boyles
State Climate Office of North CarolinaNC State University
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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
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The Need for Water Resource Data
• Economically important
• Socially important
• Monitor conditions
• Policy
• Decision support
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Water Resource Data in NC
• Many different data sources
• Many different parameters
• Many different formats
• No one place to get it all (until now)
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... and so was born, CRONOS H2O
• One digital database, one format, one interface
• Multiple sources:– USGS– NC DWR– USACE– Duke Energy– TVA– NWS COOP (precip)
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Let’s 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
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CRONOS H2O
• CRONOS + water data– Streamflow– Reservoir levels– Groundwater levels– Precipitation– Percentiles
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CRONOS H2O Interface
• Designed with “Joe Q. Public” in mind– while serving needs of advanced users
• Integrated with CRONOS (weather)
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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
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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
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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
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CRONOS H2O
www.nc-climate.ncsu.edu
Questions?
Mark Brooks
1-877-718-5544
