FluidEarth 2 Launch – 18th April 2013

Integrated modelling and the OpenMI From vision to mission

Roger MooreOpenMI Association

... Ian, please will you begin narrow and finish broad: begin where ...

Begin broad and finish narrow: Begin with: the motivation the vision the thinking which gave rise to HarmonIT and OpenMI-LIFE Chart the course of these projects Narrow to the conclusion discussing: OpenMI version 2.0 Its suitability as a ratified standard alongside other worthy standards

Motivation – planning for the WFD

• Realization that:– IWM places huge demands on policy makers/water managers

• Must consider wider impacts of policy/measures - biofuels > starvation

– Major challenges ahead:• Some foreseen ...• Some not ...

– Need help/tools– Models/DSS – obvious solution but need to be much more

sophisticated – Earth system models– Infeasible/undesirable to abandon existing and write new– Therefore must link existing ...– ... but how to do it?

Fluid Earth Launch, HR Wallingford, UK – 18 th April 2013

The R&D programme• Early work - Netherlands, USA & Australia

• Frustrated by:– Technology – H/W & S/W– ‘politics’ – not invented here, proprietary, national, ...– Funds

• 2002 EC DG RTD – HarmonIT – FP5 €6M– Planned for success:

• Recognition i) in US, ii) globally• Future funding

• 2006 EC DG ENV – OpenMI-Life – LIFE €4M+ €2M– Best of LIFE award

• 2007 OpenMI Association• 2013 Fluid Earth

The outcome• HarmonIT

– Research– OpenMI Version 1– A vision

• OpenMI-Life– Demonstration and testing under operational conditions– OpenMI Version 2– OpenMI Association

• OpenMI Association– Maintenance and development of the OpenMI– A strategy for promoting IEM

• World standard – OGC• Fluid Earth

– Providing the tools– Making it easy to use– Delivering integrated modelling to those who can exploit it

FluidEarth 2 Launch – 18th April 2013

... Ian, please will you begin narrow and finish broad: begin where ...

Begin broad and finish narrow: Begin with: the motivation the vision the thinking which gave rise to HarmonIT and OpenMI-LIFE Chart the course of these projects Narrow to the conclusion discussing: OpenMI version 2.0 Its suitability as a ratified standard alongside other worthy standards

Thank you

WWW.OpenMI.org

FluidEarth 2 Launch – 18th April 2013

Challenges foreseen ...

Groundwater status• GW status and the impact of measures

– Quantitative – abstraction leading to:1. Sustained downward trends in WL’s2. SW objectives not being achieved

1. Flow2. Ecology

3. Damage to wetlands4. Intrusion of poor water quality in GW

– Chemical - GW pollutant concentrations leading to:1. GWQ deterioration and compromise of drinking WQ2. Degradation of other uses, e.g. Irrigation, industry, ...3. SW chemical and ecological objectives not being achieved4. Damage to wetlands, e.g. Nutrient rich GW damaging ecosystem5. Intrusion of poor water quality in GW

Groundwater• Impacts of:

– Extremes on:• Groundwater resources• • • Groundwater flooding and flood damage costs

– Ground water quality on: • Health• Ecosystems

– ...• Risks arising from:

– Carbon capture and storage• ...

Dry bed of River Pang, Summer 2006

Groundwater flooding at Great Shefford on the River Lambourn Winter 2000-2001

Water SecurityHow will climate change affect the frequency of drought conditions and hence security of water supply and biological diversity?

Landslides and transport systems

How will climate change affect the incidence of road and rail closures due to landslides?

How can network and transport design be improved to adapt to environmental change?

Coastal Risk Management

How will climate change affect the number of insurance claims for properties lost to inundation and cliff erosion?

Carbon Capture and Storage

How economically viable will it be to store CO2 in a geological formation under the North Sea?

Geogmagnetically induced currents

What would be the impact of a “Carrington” type space weather event on electrical distribution systems and civil society?

Challenges not foreseen ...

Japanese tsunamiWhat is the risk to infrastructure of multiple natural disasters?

Deepwater Horizon

What would be the impact of leakage from an oil and gas well in UK waters on the national economy, coastal and marine biodiversity and the well-being of the population affected?

Volcanic eruptions

What impact will a volcanic ash cloud from an Icelandic volcano have on civil aviation and subsequent economic losses for a country?

Fracking

Disease vectorsHow will climate change affect the global distribution of malaria?

OpenMI Version 1

What is the OpenMI?

Hydraulics

Output data

Input data

User interface

Application

Rainfall/Runoff

Output data

Input data

User interface

Application

OpenMI

• A generic interface standard for:run time data exchange between models, databases and other components

• Whose purpose is to:improve ability to model process interactions

What does it do?• Key features:

– Generic– Core and extensions– Components can be models, databases, analytical or visualisation software– Models can be simple or complete applications– Models can be static or dynamic with respect to time

• Time steps may be different– Models can be spatial or non-spatial

• Spatial resolution and representation may be different– Request/reply mechanism– One and two way data exchange between modelling components at run time– Data exchanged can be numeric or categorical– Adaptors handle differences temporal, spatial and unit transformations– State management– Open– Standard is platform independent– SDK for .Net – Java and Python SDK’s in hand

The OpenMI interface functions

Descriptive • To provide information that allows other components to find

out what items this Linkable Component can exchange :

• Quantities (What)

• ElementSets (Where)

Configurative• To define what will be exchanged

Run time• To enable the model to request and receive data at run time

Engine

Linking modelled quantities

Accepts Provides

Rainfall(mm)

Runoff(m3/s)

Temperature(Deg C)

Evaporation(mm)

Accepts Provides

Upstream Inflow(m3/s)

Outflow(m3/s)

Lateral inflow(m3/s)

Abstractions(m3/s)

Discharges(m3/s)

River ModelRainfall Runoff Model

Linking element sets

Groundwater Model

River Model

Elements are the locations

where quantities are

calculated

Adapting outputs

Component1 Component

3

Component 2

Iput 1

Input 2

Input 1

Input 2

Input 3Output

3

Output 2

Output 1

Input 1

Spatial adaptation a

Spatial adaptation b

Time adaptation a

Time adaptation b SI-conv b

SI-conv a

A practical example

Interacting processes:• Flood damage cost

• Channel flow

• Sewer flow (urban)

• Surface runoff (catchment)

• RainfallFlood

levels €, $, £, …

Policy issue ……..Impact of climate change on flood damage costs

How it worksRainfall.GetValues

River

Rainfall(database)

Sewer

RR.GetValues

RR.GetValues

Rainfall-Runoff

Trigger

Sewer.GetValues

call

data

Economic

River.GetValues

A vision

A vision• Immense opportunity for innovation• Huge pool of linkable components from many disciplines• IEM and IM become accessible to all• Linking models as simple as plugging a camera into a PC• Easy to use tools for developers and end users

– SDK’s, GUI’s, composition editors – Analysis, visualisation, etc.– QC/QA

• Specialised search and assembly engines for building model chains• Small set of standards:

– Model component descriptions– Interface definitions– Semantics – especially variables

• The market changes and opens up– Barriers to entry reduced – Play to strengths

• Model marts for model components/apps and services:– Open source– Commercial

Demos and testing under operational conditions

Linking a sewer model to a river model

Objective: to optimise investments and operational strategies for sewers and rivers so as to minimise floodingStudy Case: City of Leuven and River DijlePartners: Aquafin and VMM

Use case A: linking a sewer model to a river model

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InfoWorks CS

InfoWorks RS

Linking a tidal model to a river model

Objective: to improve flood maps, forecasts and storage pond operation

Study Case: Dijle and river Scheldt

Partners: FH and VMM

Scheldt operational use case B

Location and extent of the models in Use Case B within Flanders +

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InfoWorks RS

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Linking two river models to a water quality model

Objective: to improve interaction between water quantity and water qualityStudy Case: Dijle and DenderPartners: FH, VMM and ULg

InfoWorks RS

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Scheldt operational use case C

The basin of the rivers Dijle and Demer and the location of the common linked reaches on the river Dijle in Use Case C

Linking a 1D river model to a 2D tidal model

Objective: to improve flood maps and improved knowledge of model integrationStudy Case: River Scheldt & DenderPartners: FH and Deltares

Scheldt operational use case D

Kustzuid model Leie-Bovenscheldt model

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OpenMI Version 2

A strategy for promoting IEM

OGC Bonn - 2nd March 2011

Barriers to progress• Lack of awareness• Lack of confidence• Not readily available or accessible• No skills base• Few tools• No underpinning R & D programme• Little take up by government, industry

and the public• Few resources

Strategy• Raise awareness • Build confidence• Ensure availability and accessibility • Build the skills base• Create tools• Establish an underpinning R & D programme• Grow take up by government, industry and the

public• Secure resources

OGC Bonn - 2nd March 2011

Junk slides

• Begin broad and finish narrow: • Begin with:

– the motivation– the vision– thinking which gave rise to HarmonIT and OpenMI-LIFE– chart the course of these projects– narrow to the conclusion of OpenMI discussing:

• OpenMI version 2.0• its suitability as a ratified standard alongside other worthy standards

•  • Ian, please will you begin narrow and finish broad: begin

where ...

• Roger left off with OpenMI and broaden to the vision behind FluidEarth, the opportunities and successes it created, the issues and vision for the wider modelling world. The title could be something like “FluidEarth 2: Motivations and Opportunities”.

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Status• 2002 HarmonIT• 2006 OpenMI 1.0 released • 2006 OpenMI-Life• 2007 OpenMI 1.4 released• 2007 OpenMI Association formed as legal entity to:

• Develop and maintain OpenMI standard• Disseminate information• Promote integrated modelling

• 2008 OGC approaches OA• 2010 OpenMI 2.0 released• 2012 OpenMI standard re-written in OGC style• 2013 OpenMI approved by OAB for OGC member review• 2013 Fluid Earth 2 SDK for OpenMI to be released in April

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