Water Management Cluster Meeting
This session will be focused on the activities of Water Management Cluster.
Contact: Will Pozzi, IGES
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Several presentations providing state-of-the-art developments in water cycle applications will be offered at the ESIP summer meeting. Mike Brewer will offer a brief overview of new developments with the National Integrated Drought Information System (NIDIS).
One of ESIP's goals is "making data matter," and this aspect will be addressed from a practical point of view in this session. Two efforts are underway to attempt to automate the drudgery of locating and making available streamflow discharge data and meteorological-driven evapotranspiration data in order to construct water budgets. The National Science Foundation-sponsored CUAHSI (Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science) is developing such a system within the US. The NASA-sponsored WaterNet project is working to develop an operational global water nowcasting system as part of the Group of Earth Observations System of Systems (GEOSS). Both efforts are exploring ways to link Land Surface Models with hydrological and hydraulic streamflow routing models, in order to integrate the hydrological cycle with the Earth System modeling community.
Dr. Michael Piasecki (Drexel) is scheduled to offer a presentation on CUAHSI's approach; Will Pozzi and Balazs Fekete will offer a short presentation on the WaterNet approach. CUASHI is developing web services and semantic web technologies that access multiple agency (USGS and EPA, etc) data collections as part of its "digital watershed" effort.
Will Pozzi and Dr. Phil Yang (presentation of Yang, Pozzi, and Myra Bambacus(NASA/GSFC GIO) will give a brief presentation illustrating the new EIE-WaterNet Water Portal, and Dr. Phil Yang will also mention new developments in WECO.
Group of Earth Observations System of System (GEOSS)
The Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) 10-Year Implementation Plan (as adopted 16 February 2005) includes the goal: "Water-related issues addressed by GEOSS will include: precipitation; soil moisture; streamflow; lake and reservoir levels; snow cover; glaciers and ice; evaporation and transpiration; groundwater; and water quality and water use. GEOSS implementation will improve integrated water resource management by bringing together observations, prediction, and decision support systems and by creating better linkages to climate and other data." Part of this effort will require a global water "nowcasting" system, along with the infrastructure to ensure interoperability and metadata standards to ensure interoperability.
The National Academy of Sciences "Earth Science and Applications from Space: National Imperatives for the Next Decade and Beyond" (Decadal Survey) concludes: "End-to-End Information-System Needs Lead responsibility for observing various aspects of the water cycle crosses NASA, NOAA, USGS, and USDA. Building and sustaining integrated hydrologic data sets for the United States will require coordination among those agencies that, although technologically feasible, does not yet exist--building upon efforts such as those of CUAHSI "WaterOneFlow" web services.
