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Update from Australia A Land of Droughts and Flooding RainsDavid Lemon| Research Stream Leader: Water Informatics 20 March 2012Water for a Healthy Country FlagshipI love a sunburnt country,A land of sweeping plains,Of ragged mountain ranges,Of droughts and flooding rains.Dorothea MacKellar

Update from Australia | David Lemon

Australias water situation3 Years agoUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

Australias water situationNowUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

Introduction to geography of AustraliaDesert

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Introduction to geography of AustraliaDesertTropics

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Introduction to geography of AustraliaDesertTropicsMajor water supply systemsPeopleUpdate from Australia | David Lemon7Animate this with photos5 year alliance between CSIRO and Bureau of MeteorologyHas focussed on:Water information systemsTools for exchanging water informationTools for achieving interoperability between systemsNew spatial products for AustraliaWater Resources AssessmentAWRAWater ForecastingShort (7 day) and Medium (3 months).

Water Information Research and Development Alliance (WIRADA)Update from Australia | David LemonWater Data Transfer StandardsWater Data Transfer FormatUsed to deliver data to BureauSome looking to use beyond Bureau requirementsV2 will be based on WaterML 2.0 and mandatedWaterML2.0Near completionAd-hoc toolsUse of semantic technologies to convert ad-hoc spreadsheets to WDTFProvenance

WIRADA: Water Information Systems successesUpdate from Australia | David LemonSustainable Water Information ModelsSolidGroundMethods and Tools for creation and management of modular information modelsAimed at supporting interoperabilityAustralian Hydrological Geospatial Fabric (Geofabric)Consistent underpinning spatial data products to support analysis and reportingBuilt on a common conceptual modelHY_Features model

WIRADA: Water Information Systems successesUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

30 DEMSRTM data cleaningDSM, DEM, DEM-S, DEM-H productsProducts now released publicallyConflation ToolsConflating networks from multiple sources

WIRADA: Water Information Systems successesUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

Continental scale historical water balance systemScientific workflowFusion of models and observation dataMakes strong use of remotely sensed observationsDesigned to support two new nationally significant water information products from the Bureau of MeteorologyComprised of model components, data streams, -pre -post processors, provenance system and orchestrated by a workflow engine (currently Delft-FEWS).AWRAUpdate from Australia | David LemonAWRA-L for landscape processesA gridded hydrology model representing various landscape processes such as ET, groundwater and flow to river

AWRA system ComponentsUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

AWRA-R for river modellingA river reach model representing inflows, storage, groundwater, exchanges, extractions and routing.Each reach is represented by a template model

AWRA system Components

Update from Australia | David LemonAWRA-G for groundwater interactionsMethods for better modelling groundwater in both AWRA-L and AWRA-R

AWRA system Components

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Water storage over time in major hydrologic componentsLong and shorter term trendsLarge scale global water accountsTHREDDS Data Catalogue

AWRA OutputsUpdate from Australia | David Lemon

Global water monitoring AWRA-L as a starting pointHydrologic services using WPSMajor challenges;Access to in situ water dataScale versus computational loadExtensions to WPS?Future, beyond WIRADAUpdate from Australia | David LemonOne year leftFocus on transition to operations of researchNo new work. Complete what weve done

WIRADA 2?Yes but limited (if any) informatics

WIRADA: Whats next?Update from Australia | David LemonBarely funded program to do for all environmental information what has been done for waterWill be built on using a Linked Data\SDI approach

National Plan for Environmental InformationNational Environmental Information InfrastructureUpdate from Australia | David LemonBioregional AssessmentsDriven by expanding Coal Seam Gas industryTracking provenance vitalThank youLand and Water/Environmental Information SystemsDavid LemonResearch Stream Leader: Water Informatics t+61 2 2646 5724eDavid.Lemon@csiro.auwwww.csiro.au/clwWater for a Healthy Country FlagshipRoot zonewater balancePE0Surface runoff RSoil surface water balanceTmaxInGroundwater balanceBFQFQSsSgDOptimum transpirationS0UmaxVegetation adjustmentDirect evaporationI0EVIETRunoff routingStream flowaccumulationSrMaximum root water uptakeActualtranspiration1