Stochastic Nonparametric Framework for Basin Wide Streamflow and Salinity Modeling Application to Colorado River basin Study Progress Meeting James R

Stochastic Nonparametric Framework for Basin Wide Streamflow and Salinity ModelingApplication to Colorado River basin

Study Progress MeetingJames R. PrairieAugust 17, 2006

Recent progress

• Stochastic streamflow conditioned on Paleo Flow– Non homogenous Markov Chain with Kernel Smoothing

• Estimate lag-1 two state transition probabilities for each year using a Kernel Estimator

• Generate Flow State

• Conditionally Generate flow magnitude

• Colorado River Basin Wide flow simulation– Modify the nonparametric space-time disagg approach

to generate monthly flows at all the 29 stations simultaneously

– Flow simulation using Paleo recontructions

Masters ResearchSingle site

Modified K-NN streamflow generatorClimate Analysis

Nonparametric Natural Salt Model

Policy AnalysisImpacts of drought

HydrologyWater quality

Stochastic Nonparametric Technique for Space-Time Disaggregation

Basin Wide Natural Salt Model

Incorporate Paleoclimate InformationStreamflow conditioned on “Flow States” from

Paleo reconstructions

Proposed Methods

Generate flow conditionally(K-NN resampling)

),,( 11 tttt xSSxf

Generate system state )( tS

Block bootstrap resampling of Paleo

flows

Nonhomogeneous Markov model

Markov Chain on a 30-yr window

or Nonhomogeneous Markov model with

smoothing

or

Datasets

• Paleo reconstruction from Woodhouse et al. 2006– Water years 1490-1997

• Observed natural flow from Reclamation– Water years 1906-2003

Addressing previous issues

• Determined order of the Markov model– used AIC (Gates and Tong, 1976)

• Indicated order 0 (or 1) - we used order 1

• Subjective block length and window for estimating the Markov Chain Transition Probabilities– Nonhomogeneous Markov Chain with Kernel Smoothing

alleviates this problem (Rajagopalan et al., 1996)

Nonhomogenous Markov model with Kernel smoothing (Rajagopalan et al., 1996)

• 2 state, lag 1 model chosen– ‘wet (1)’ if flow above annual median of

observed record; ‘dry (0)’ otherwise.– AIC used for order selection (order 1 chosen)

• TP for each year are obtained

using the Kernel Estimator

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Nonhomogenous Markov model with Kernel smoothing (Rajagopalan et al., 1996)

K(x) is a discrete quadratic Kernel (or weight function)– ‘h’ is the smoothing window obtained

objectively using

Least Square Cross Validation

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TPMs without smoothing

TPMs with smoothing

3 states

Window length chosen with LSCV

Simulation Algorithm

1. Determine planning horizonWe chose 98yrs (same length as observational record)

2. Select 98 year block at randomFor example 1701-1798

3. Generate flow states for each year of the resampled block using their respective TPMs estimated earlier NHMC

4. Generate flow magnitudes for each year by resampling observed flow using a conditional K-NN method

1. Repeat steps 2 through 4 to obtain as many required simulations

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Advantages over block resampling

• No need for a subjective window length– i.e., 30 year window was used to estimate the TP

• Obviates the need for additional sub-lengths within the planning horizon– i.e., earlier 3 30-yr blocks were resampled

• Fully Objective in estimating the TPMs for each year

No Conditioning

• ISM• 98 simulations• 98 year length

No Conditioning


Paleo Conditioned

• NHMC with smoothing

• 500 simulations• 98 year length

Paleo Conditioned



Threshold

(e.g., mean)

Drought Length

Surplus Length

time

Drought Deficit

Drought and Surplus Statistics

Surplus volumeflo

w

No Conditioning


Paleo Conditioned


• 2 states• 500 simulations• 98 year length

Paleo Conditioned

• Markov chain length31 years


Sequent Peak Algorithm

• Determine required Storage Capacity (Sc) at various demand levels given specified inflows.

• Evaluate risk of not meeting the required Sc

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ydSS if positive

otherwise

y = inflow time series (2x)

d = demand level

S = storage

S’0 = 0

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No Conditioning


60

No Conditioning

• Traditional KNN• 98 simulations• 98 year length

60

Paleo Conditioned



60

Paleo Conditioned

• PDF of 16.5 boxplot

• Red hatch represents risk of not meeting 16.5 demand at a 60 MAF storage capacity

Paleo Conditioned


Paleo Conditioned



60

Paleo Conditioned


• Red hatch represents risk of not meeting 13.5 demand at a 60 MAF storage capacity

Paleo Conditioned

• CDF of 13.5 boxplot

Storage Capacity – Firm Yield function

• What is the maximum yield (Y) given a specific storage capacity (K) and flow sequence (Qt)?

• Mathematically this can be answered with optimization

Maximize Y

Subject to:

Storage Minimum S

0

SSpill-Y-Q

0

SK - Y - Q

1-ttt

1-ttt

tS

Spillotherwiseif positive

otherwiseif positive

Paleo Conditioned


• 500 simulations

• 98 year length

Basic Statistics • Preserved for

observed data• Note

max and min constrained in observed

Conclusions

• Combines strength of – Reconstructed paleo streamflows: system state– Observed streamflows: flows magnitude

• Develops a rich variety of streamflow sequences– Generates sequences not in the observed record – More variety: block bootstrap reconstructed streamflows– Most variety: nonhomogeneous Markov chain

• TPM provide flexibility– Homogenous Markov chains– Nonhomogenous Markov chains– Use TPM to mimic climate signal (e.g., PDO)– Generate drier or wetter than average flows

Masters ResearchSingle site

Modified K-NN streamflow generatorClimate Analysis

Nonparametric Natural Salt Model

Policy AnalysisImpacts of drought

HydrologyWater quality

Stochastic Nonparametric Technique for Space-Time Disaggregation

Basin Wide Natural Salt Model

Incorporate Paleoclimate InformationStreamflow conditioned on Paleo states

Streamflow conditioned with TPM

Full basin disaggregation

• Upper basin – 20 gauges (all above Lees Ferry, including Lees Ferry)– Annual total flow at Lees Ferry: modeled with modified K-

NN – Disaggregate Lees Ferry: nonparametric disaggregation

• Results in intervening monthly flows at CRSS nodes

• Store the years resampled during the temporal disagg

• Lower basin– 9 gauges (all gauges below Lees Ferry)– Select the month values for all sites in a given year based

on the years stored above

Nonparametric disagg

K-NN years applied

Advantages

• Paleo-conditioned flows for entire basin• Upper Basin

– Generate both annual and monthly flows not previously observed

– Produces 92% of annual flows above Imperial Dam– Faithfully reproduces PDF and CDF for both intervening and

total flows

• Lower Basin– Produces 8% of annual flows above Imperial Dam– Preserves intermittent properties of tributaries– Faithfully reproduces all statistics– Easily incorporate reconstructions at Lees Ferry

Disadvantages

• Upper Basin– Generates negative flows at rim gauges (7 out of 10 gauges)

• Average of 1.5% negatives over all simulations (500 sims)• Is this important? • Two largest contributors only produce 2.2%

– Can not capture cross over correlation (i.e. between last month of previous year and first month of the current year)

• Improved in recent run (added a weighted resampling)

– Can not generate large extremes beyond the observed • Annual flow model choice • Using Paleo flow magnitudes

• Lower Basin– Can only generate observed flows

Lees Ferry

• intervening

Lees Ferry

• Total sum of intervening

Lees Ferry


• No first month current year with last month previous year weighting

Cisco


Green River UT


San Juan


San Rafael


• 1.2% of flow above Lees

• 6% negatives over 500 sims

Lower Basin

• Resample observed months based on K-NN from Upper basin disaggregation

Abv Imperial Dam


Little Colorado


Cross Correlation


Cross Correlation


Probability Density Function

• Lees Ferry



• Lees Ferry



• Lees Ferry

• Intervening

Drought Statistics

• Lees Ferry


Drought Statistics

• Paleo Conditioned

• Lees Ferry


Drought Statistics

• Paleo Conditioned

• Imperial Dam


Comments

• Handling negatives in total natural flow– Continuing to explore reducing negatives in simulations– Should we address base data (natural flow)?– How does RiverWare handle negatives at rims?

• Min 10 constraint

• K-NN implementation in Lower basin– Robust, simple– Handles intermittent streams– Faithfully reproduces statistics

Next steps

• Incorporate salinity methods in EIS CRSS• Generate stochastic data no conditioning

– Flow and salt scenarios– Disaggregate data

• Generate paleo conditioned data for network– Flow and salt scenarios– Disaggregate data

• Drive decision support system– Perform policy analysis

• Compare results from at least two hydrologies– Paleo conditioned streamflows– Index Sequential Method (current Reclamation technique)– Possibly stochastic no conditioning

Continued Steps

• Submitted revisions for WRR paper• Finalize and submit Salt Model Paper

– Journal of Hydrology

• Complete Markov Paper– Water Resources Research

• Complete Policy Analysis Paper– ASCE Journal of Water Resources Planning and

Management or Journal of American Water Resources Association

• Incorporate all into dissertation

Additional Research Information

http://animas.colorado.edu/~prairie/ResearchHomePage.html

Acknowledgements

• To my committee and advisor. Thank you for your guidance and commitment.– Balaji Rajagopalan, Edith Zagona, Kenneth Strzepek,

Subhrendu Gangopadhyay, and Terrance Fulp

• Funding support provided by Reclamation’s Lower Colorado Regional Office

• Logistical support provided by CADSWES

Extra Slide Follow

Incorporate paleo state information

• Magnitudes of Paleo data in question?– Address issue, use observed data to represent magnitude

and paleo reconstructed streamflows to represent system state

– Generate streamflows from the observed record conditioned on paleo streamflow state information

Block Bootstrap Data

(30 year blocks)

Compute state information

Use KNN technique to resample natural flow dataconsistent with paleo state information

Categorize natural flow data

Paleo Reconstructed Streamflow Data

Natural Streamflow Data

Nonhomogeneous Markov model

Determine TPMs in smoothed window

Choose one path

No Conditioning


Index gauge

Disaggregation schemeColorado River at Glenwood Springs, ColoradoColorado River near Cameo, Colorado

San Juan River near Bluff, UtahColorado River near Lees Ferry, Arizona

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annual to monthly at index gauge

spatial disaggregation

monthly index gaugeto monthly gauge

No Conditioning


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Paleo Conditioned

• Markov chain length31 years


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Stochastic Nonparametric Framework for Basin Wide Streamflow and Salinity Modeling Application to Colorado River basin Study Progress Meeting James R