EGU24-15283, updated on 09 Mar 2024
https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15283
EGU General Assembly 2024
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HydroSOS: Knitting local and global hydrological status and outlooks systems together for seamless water resources assessment 

Katie Facer-Childs1, Lucy Barker1, Harry Dixon1, Alan Jenkins1, Sulagna Mishra2, Luis Roberto Silva Vara2, Dominique Berod2, Hwirin Kim2, Jim Nelson3, Riley Hales3, Rachel Huber3, and Angelica Gutierrez4
Katie Facer-Childs et al.
  • 1UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Wallingford, United Kingdom of Great Britain – England, Scotland, Wales (katsmi@ceh.ac.uk)
  • 2World Meteorological Organization, Switzerland
  • 3Brigham Young University, USA
  • 4National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, USA

Many hydroclimate services exist across the world at different scales. However, these services all use different categorisation schemes, different presentation styles, and are hosted across countless different websites. The Hydrological Status and Outlook System (HydroSOS) is a World Meteorological Organization initiative uniting, or “knitting”, hydrological status and sub-seasonal to seasonal outlooks products across scales in a consistent framework, weaving seamless services for water resources assessment.

HydroSOS extends beyond uniting existing services, also building capacity where services do not currently exist. It provides essential guidance and frameworks enabling the assessment of hydrological status for different variables. Additionally, HydroSOS is reviewing methods of producing useful hydrological forecasts in data sparse regions using statistical methods, or hydrological models, with and without real-time meteorological forecast inputs. Working in collaboration with the GEOGloWS initiative, global scale services are being improved with bias correction using machine learning and local scale data.

This fiber-art poster presents the HydroSOS initiative, its progress, and calls for ideas and collaborations on how we can knit hydroclimate services together to make the best fabric for water resources management.

How to cite: Facer-Childs, K., Barker, L., Dixon, H., Jenkins, A., Mishra, S., Silva Vara, L. R., Berod, D., Kim, H., Nelson, J., Hales, R., Huber, R., and Gutierrez, A.: HydroSOS: Knitting local and global hydrological status and outlooks systems together for seamless water resources assessment , EGU General Assembly 2024, Vienna, Austria, 14–19 Apr 2024, EGU24-15283, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu24-15283, 2024.

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