International Hydrometeorology
Possible Prereqs:
1. Basic Hydro DL Course
2. Intro to Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
3. Inverted Troughs and their Associated Precip Regimes
4. Jet Streak Circulations
5. Hydrology of Dam Failure
Major Topics:
1. QPF: The latest in the science
2. Probabilistic QPF
3. QPF exercise
4. Cyclogenesis
5. Isentropic basics
6. Mesoscale Processes- winter
7. Precip Type and SLR
8. Winter Weather Exercise
9. QPE radar
10. QPE satellite
11. QPF direct rain and snow measurement
12. QPE tools (FFMP, SUMS, other?)
13. QPE exercise
14. Intense Precip-warm season
15. Flash Flood Hydrology
16. Flash Flood Exercise
17. Urban Hydrology
18. Urban Flood Exercise
19. Debris Flow Hydrology
20. Field Study: FCL, Big Thompson, Lawn Lake
21. Paleo Flood Hydrology
22. GIS and Flood mapping
23. River Modeling
24. Distributed Watershed Modeling
25. Ensemble Streamflow Prediction
26. Societal Impacts
1-week Residence:
8:00
Intros
Logistics
8:00
Satellite QPE
9:00 Radar QPE
9:00 QPF: State of
the Science
10:00 Rain gauges
10:00 Probabilistic
QPF
11:00 Orographic
QPE tools
11:00 Isentropic
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:30 Cool Season
Storms
1:30 Intense Warm
Season QPF
2:30 Workstation
Tutorial
2:30 Flash Flood
Hydrology
3:00 QPF Lab
3:30 Flash Flood
Lab
4:30 Reception
5:00 Adjourn
7:00 Meet at Hotel
Go over Urban
Flood Hydrology
in bus.
Visit Fort Collins
Flood Site
Emergency
Managment
11:00 Box Lunch
in Big Thompson
1:30 Rocky Mtn
Park Visitor
Center
2:30 Lawn lake
Dambreak Site
8:00
Societal Impacts of
Flooding
8:00
Debris Flow
Hydrology
9:30 Distributed
Watershed Models
9:00 River Models
and Hydraulics
10:30 Ensemble
Streamflow
Prediction
11:00 River Ice
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:30 River Models
1:30 River
Modeling labs
3:00 River Model
Labs
2:30 Paleo
Hydrology
4:00 Summary and
Wrap Up
4:00 Home
5:00 Adjourn
5:00 Adjourn
2-week Residence: Week 1
8:00
Intros
Logistics
9:00 QPF: State of
the Science
11:00 QPF:
Uncertainty and
Probabilistic
8:00
Basic Hydro
Review (refer to
DL Course
Material)
8:00
Precip Type and
SLR
8:00
Warm Season QPE
7:00
Meet at Hotel
10:00 Radar QPE
9:00 QPE Tools
(MPE, SUMS…)
Fort Collins Urban
Flood Control
10:00
Cycolgenesis
11:00 Rain Gauge
QPE
10:00 Intense
Precip, PE
Emergency
Response Talk
11:00 Flash Flood
Hydrology
Visit Big
Thomspon Canyon
11:00 Box Lunch
in Big Thompson
1:30 Rocky Mtn
Park Visitor Center
11:00 Isentropic
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:30 Workstation
Tutorial
1:30 Cool Season
Mesoscale
1:30 Remote Snow
Measurement
1:30 Flash Flood
Lab
2:00 QPF Lab
2:30 Satellite QPE
2:30 Orographic
Precip Estimation
3:00 Urban
Hydrology
3:30 Cool Season
Precip Lab
5:00 Adjourn
4:00 Field Trip
Overview
5:00 Adjourn
8:00
Distributed
Watershed Models
8:00
Hydraulics
4:00 Satellite QOE
Lab
4:30 Reception
5:00 Adjourn
2:30 Lawn Lake
Dambreak Site
4:00 Home
2-week Residence: Week 2
8:00
Societal Impacts of
Flooding
10:00 Urban Flood
Lab
8:00
River Models
10:00 River Model
Lab
10:00 Ensemble
Streamflow
Prediction
10:00 Hydrologic
Forecast
Verification
8:00
Paleo Flood
Hydrology
10:00 Climate
Change
11:00 Graduation
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
12:00 Lunch
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:30 Meet at
NCAR ML
1:00 WeatherTalk
1:00 WeatherTalk
Tour lab
1:30 Flood
Mapping and GIS
1:30 Verification
Lab
Hydro Work at
UCAR/NCAR
3:00 Flood
Mapping Lab
3:30 Coming
developments in
Hydro
5:00 Adjourn
5:00 Adjourn
5:00 Adjourn
1:30 Debris Flows:
Burnt and unburnt
watersheds
3:30 Land Use and
its impacts
4:30 Reception
Adjourn