david watson river forecast section alberta environment and sustainable resource development
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Alberta Rivers AppDiscussion and Demonstration
David Watson
River Forecast SectionAlberta Environment and Sustainable Resource Development
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River Forecast Team Mandate
– Real-time flow forecasting and support to partners (public, provincial staff, Municipal Emergency Managers, Industry, Provincial Parks, National Parks, Prairie Provinces)
– Near real-time data quality management; enter WSC and Provincial field measurement; assist in prioritized field maintenance of monitoring network
– Daily Natural Flow Forecasting– Water Supply
• To provide Albertans with information related to current and future river or river ice conditions to enable Albertans to make decisions related to water supply, and emergency response planning.
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Previous Public Access to Data
Access to “Near-Real-Time” Data• Alberta River Basins Website.
www.environment.alberta.ca/apps/basins/
How Current is the Data?• Alberta River Basins Website.
Data Transmission, Processing, Database Ingestion, Data made available to web server.
• Not uncommon for data displayed on the web to be ~ 2-3 hours old.
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Alberta Basins Webpage – Oldman Basin
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Previous Public Access to Advisories
Access to Advisories (Pre-2013)• Current and Historicalwww.environment.alberta.ca/forecasting/advisories/index.html
In 2013, the River Forecast Section adopted the Alberta Emergency Alberta warning system, which allowed users to sign up for RSS feeds, and eventually text message alerts.• This system would alert users of ALL advisories
throughout the province, did not allow for users to select the type of advisory they were interested in.
www.emergencyalert.alberta.ca
Access to Forecasters Commentswww.environment.alberta.ca/forecasting/ForecastersComments/index.html
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Previous Advisory – PDF Format
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Previous Forecaster Comments - PDF
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June 2013 – Shift in Public Expectation
Banff Falls
Bow River 2013
Canmore –Cougar Creek 2013 and 2014
Exshaw – Bow River -2013
Carrot Creek
Banff Park 2013
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Alberta Rivers App
App Description:Obtain the latest information about Alberta’s rivers, including flood advisories and comments issued by Alberta’s River Forecast Centre.
View all current surface water data for Alberta.
Public Need ServedAccess to Near-Real-Time Data• Data displayed is in higher resolution
15 min intervals, vs. hourly aggregation.• Data is truly Near-Real-Time
Data displayed on the app is only 20 minutes older than what is available to Forecasters in the WISKI database.
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Alberta Rivers AppFeatures:• View all monitoring stations on a map
– 398 Rivers/Lake stations– 315 Precipitation stations– 17 Snow Pillow stations
• Tap stations to view current data and whether flows are normal• Receive notifications when new advisories and relative comments are issued• Save your own list of important stations for quick reference
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Advisories apply to streams and their tributaries unless otherwise noted.• No significant precipitation is
expected in the next week – although conditions will remain unsettled
• Water levels rises of up to 0.7 m were observed over the weekend
• The maximum precipitation occurred in the James and Clearwater River Basins (50mm)
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