Jun. 3, 2013 Progress

Data Collection

• Pre-processed much of the required data for the various models within the modeling framework
  • Census data
  • Climate data (NCDC and CoAgMet)
  • Soils
  • NLCD
  • DEM
  • NHD
• received access to downscaled climate change datasets for the South Platte River Basin from CMIP 5
• received access to remotely sensed ET data throughout the South Platte River Basin

Model Integration

• Began developing a SWAT model for the Poudre River Basin
• Linking SWAT with a socio-economic model to provide supply and shortage feedback along with future water demand between the hydrologic and socio-economic components
• Planning SWAT connection to DayCent for more detailed nutrient cycling and crop production in Ag, Forest, and Rangeland areas
• successfully converted the Integrated Urban Water Management (IUWM) tool to a multi-platform framework
• Almost completely hydraulically linked the hydrologic model (SWAT) with the groundwater model (MODFLOW + UZF)

Infrastructure and computational improvements

• Coordinating with SWAT developers changes and updates made to the code to make it multi-platform and be able to utilized the GNU compilers in addition to Nvidia GPU compiler and PGI CUDA FORTRAN compiler
• made several significant computational speedups within SWAT (input and output tables and lookups)…
• parallelizing SWAT using two different approaches: Map-Reduce and GPU computing (have the code ready to test)

Coordination

• Discussing potential water management solutions with CWCB, CDWR, the Poudre River Water Commissioner and other stakeholders and decision makers within the South Platte River Basin
• Discussing regional climate simulation and collaborative opportunities with NCAR (David Yates, Noah Molotch, and David Gochis) using the WRF model
• Storylines from SWSI (climate and land-use/population) talk to Taryn & updating SWSI
• discussed future storylines for energy with Stacy Tellinghuisen from Western Resource Advocates
• discussed potential for collaboration with work at CSU on oil & gas water production and management is this getting consumable water from produced water (?) most applications are for non-tributary water to the South Platte…
• coordinating efforts with two other groups doing complementary work in the South Platte River Basin on fires and inter-basin transfers

Water Allocation

• Just about finished linking NHD with water rights…
• Thinking of developing a network off of NHD data use 24k NHD (not 100k NHD)
• Connecting Wells to GW modeling components – decipher between alluvial and bedrock wells (depth to bedrock is a good indication)

Reporting and presentations

• Building detailed and high-resolution figures to display the model integration, forcings and outputs