Peter Gijsbers, Mark Hegnauer, Judith ter Maat iEMSs 2020, session C9
Integrated systems for dynamic multi-scale environmental and earth systems modelling C9.4., 15 September 2020
BlueEarth:
an Integrated Approach from
Model Building to
Stakeholder Dialogue
Context
Global trends
§ Increasing variability of water availability
à Less reliable sources
§ Increasing pressure on available water resources
à Higher demand of water
This requires
§ Planning at river basin scale
§ Integration of hydrological and social data & models
§ Efficient multi-stakeholder communication & collaboration
Informed and interactive decision making
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v Society faces social and environmental challenges
v Require integratedplanning and management processes to develop resilient strategies v Involvement of wide variety of disciplines and stakeholders
v Support with a digital environment and model analysis v Informed and interactive decision making
What kind of decisions could be supported?
v Mitigation of drought hazard and risks: e.g. low flows and navigation
v Water management strategies: e.g. reservoir management or shifting from sprinkler to drip irrigation
v Climate change adaptation: e.g. shift from rainfed to irrigated agriculture
Hydrological history What if …? analysis Climate change scenarios Socio-economic scenarios Agricultural scenarios Land use scenarios Interventions, management actions Results
Our experiences from the past
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v Building models from scratch using local datasets is a slow process
v Data collection is time consuming
v Data often is of unknown quality or not available
v Consequence: planning processes cannot take full benefit of modelling effort
v Models become available late in the project
v Limits ability for trust building through collaborative modelling and stakeholder engagement v Limits time for in-depth model analysis
v Speeding up the building process can improve this situation
v Globally datasets have sufficient quality and resolution to provide data foundation v Local datasets can enrich this global data
BlueEarth: an effort to combine
v Data centric:
v Use of reliable (global) datasets
v Supplemented with local data when available
v Engine:
v Model Building for rapid model setup: Global to local
v Computational Framework: to run, analyze and visualize model results v Open Archive: to store model inputs and results
v Co-creation:
v Web services: to provide data access
BlueEarth
Digital Environment
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tomcat
Deltares Open Archive
Catalogue server (meta data)
NetCDF file based data archive PI-Service tomcat WMS tomcat data Computational Framework Model Building HydroMT wflow RIBASIM
Dashboards & Data portals
W e b s e rv ic e s
Global data sources used for land based models
• Digital Elevation Model: MERIT (Yamakazi et al. 2019) • Soil data: SoilGrids (Hengl et al.2017)
• Lakes: HydroLakes (Messager et al. 2016)
• Reservoirs: Global Reservoir and Dam database (Lehner et al. 2011)
Supplemented with local data sources
HydroMT engine for rapid model setup
M e th o d s raster vector Models Data Workflows stats flw plots rio yaml wflow sfincs waq p y h to n C L I ini raster vector Model data hydroMT Input data configHydroMT result: model dataset
Computational Framework
powered by Delft-FEWS
change, execute, analyze, archive
Workflow Management Run wflow (General Adapter) database Delft-FEWS Module Delft-FEWS Workflow
Import Preprocess Postprocess
forcing
Run RIBASIM (General Adapter)
change run analyze archive
Computational Framework
powered by Delft-FEWS
change
v What-ifs accommodate changes to model input
v Modification of GIS-attribute values v Modification of model parameters values
v Replacement of externally prepared native data files
Computational Framework
powered by Delft-FEWS
execute
Workflow Management Run wflow (General Adapter) database data exchange file (PI) native model data files External Module Delft-FEWS Module Delft-FEWS WorkflowImport Preprocess Postprocess
wflow RIBASIM netcdf zip netcdf log.xml xml zip PreAdapter native (tms) forcing Run RIBASIM (General Adapter) Published Interface (xml/NetCDF)
Computational Framework
powered by Delft-FEWS
analyze
BlueEarth Engine
BlueEarth-Dashboards:
Co-creation for effective and interactive communication
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process facilitator stakeholders
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