16 August 2014

Anam Jabeen

Hydro-Meteorological Decision Support System

• HDSS is used by operational decision makers to reliably predict hazardous weather phenomena such as heavy rains and total catchment rainfall accumulations.

• Integrates all available data – radar (single or dual-pol), – satellite, – model, – surface stations, – rain gauges• Performs data quality control and builds 3D

mosaics of the data• Web browser based display• 3D display workstation

HDSS Overview

Radars

Satellite IR

Surface Observationss

Upper Air Obs

Lightning

Nowcasts of Many Weather Phenomena

Precipitation Estimates and Predictions

Lightning Predictions

HydroMet Products

Data Integration

HydroMet Decision Support System

International HDSS Deployments

CWBTaiwan

ARPAV Italy

TMDThailand

HDSS was developed to support decision makers who need to:

predict flash floods and warn the public

manage hydro-electric facilities forecast river and coastal

flooding forecast urban drainage and

runoff