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contributor authorClark, Robert A.
contributor authorFlamig, Zachary L.
contributor authorVergara, Humberto
contributor authorHong, Yang
contributor authorGourley, Jonathan J.
contributor authorMandl, Daniel J.
contributor authorFrye, Stuart
contributor authorHandy, Matthew
contributor authorPatterson, Maria
date accessioned2017-06-09T16:46:03Z
date available2017-06-09T16:46:03Z
date issued2016
identifier issn0003-0007
identifier otherams-73726.pdf
identifier urihttp://onlinelibrary.yabesh.ir/handle/yetl/4215872
description abstracthe Republic of Namibia, located along the arid and semi-arid coast of southwest Africa, is highly dependent on reliable forecasts of surface and groundwater storage and fluxes. Since 2009, the University of Oklahoma (OU) and NASA have engaged in a series of exercises with the Namibian Ministry of Agriculture, Water, and Forestry to build the capacity to improve the water information available to local decision makers. These activities have included the calibration and implementation of NASA and OU?s jointly-developed Coupled Routing and Excess Storage (CREST) hydrological model, as well as the Ensemble Framework for Flash Flood Forecasting (EF5). Hydrological model output is used to produce forecasts of river stage height, discharge, and soil moisture.To enable broad access to this suite of environmental decision support information, a website, the Namibia Flood Dashboard, hosted on the infrastructure of the Open Science Data Cloud, has been developed. This system enables scientists, Ministry officials, non-governmental organizations, and other interested parties to freely access all available water information produced by the project, including comparisons of NASA satellite imagery to model forecasts of flooding or drought. The local expertise needed to generate and enhance these water information products has been grown through a series of training meetings bringing together national government officials, regional stakeholders, and local university students and faculty. Aided by online training materials, these exercises have resulted in additional capacity building activities with CREST and EF5 beyond Namibia, as well as the initial implementation of a global flood monitoring and forecasting system.
publisherAmerican Meteorological Society
titleHydrological Modeling and Capacity Building in the Republic of Namibia
typeJournal Paper
journal volume098
journal issue008
journal titleBulletin of the American Meteorological Society
identifier doi10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00130.1
journal fristpage1697
journal lastpage1715
treeBulletin of the American Meteorological Society:;2016:;volume( 098 ):;issue: 008
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