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Performance of WRF (ARW) Over River Basins in Odisha, India During Flood Season 2014 (IJIRST/ Volume 2 / Issue 06/ 015) IJIRST –International Journal for Innovative Research in Science & Technology| Volume 2 | Issue 06 | November 2015 ISSN (online): 2349-6010 Performance of WRF (ARW) over River Basins in Odisha, India During Flood Season 2014 Sumant Kr. Diwakar Dr. (Mrs.) Surinder Kaur India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India Dr. Ashok Kumar Das Anuradha Agarwala Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Department of Statistics, India Meteorological Department, New Delhi, India Delhi University Abstract Operational Weather Research & Forecasting – Advanced Research WRF in short WRF (ARW) 9 km x 9 km Model (IMD) based rainfall forecast of India Meteorological Department (IMD) is utilized to compute rainfall forecast over River basins in Odisha during Flood season 2014. The performance of the WRF Model at the sub-basin level is studied in detail. It is observed that the IMD’s WRF (ARW) day1, day2, day3 correct forecast range lies in between 31-47 %, 37-43%, and 28-47% respectively during the flood season 2014. Keywords: GIS; WRF (ARW); IMD; Flood 2014; Odisha _______________________________________________________________________________________________________ I. INTRODUCTION Forecast during the monsoon season river sub-basin wise in India is difficult task for meteorologist to give rainfall forecast where the country have large spatial and temporal variations. India Meteorological Department (IMD) through its Flood Meteorological Offices (FMO) is issuing Quantitative Precipitation Forecast (QPF) sub-basin wise for all Flood prone river basins in India (IMD, 1994). There are 10 FMOs all over India spread in the flood prone river basins and FMO Bhubaneswar, Odisha is one of them. The Categories in which QPF are issued are as follows Rainfall (in mm) 0 1-10 11-25 26-50 51-100 >100 Odisha is an Indian state on the subcontinent’s east coast, by the Bay of Bengal. It is located between the parallels of 17.49’ N and 22.34’ N Latitudes and meridians of 81.27’ E and 87.29’ E Longitudes. It is surrounded by the Indian states of West Bengal to the north-east and in the east, Jharkhand to the north, Chhattisgarh to the west and north-west and Andhra Pradesh to the south. Bhubaneswar is the capital of Odisha. Odisha is the 9th largest state by area in India and the 11th largest by population. Odisha has a coastline about 480 km long. The narrow, level coastal strip including the Mahanadi river delta supports the bulk of the population. On the basis of homogeneity, continuity and physiographical characteristics, Odisha has been divided into five major morphological regions. The Odisha Coastal Plain in the east, the Middle Mountainous and Highlands Region, the Central Plateaus, the western rolling uplands and the major flood plains. A. River System The river system of Odisha comprises the Mahanadi, Brahmani, Baitarani, Subarnarekha, Vamasadhara, Burhabalanga, Rushikulya, Nagavali, Indravati, Kolab, Bahuda, Jambhira and other tributaries and distributaries. Table – 1 Major Rivers in Odisha with Catchment Area (Sq. Km) Catchment Area (Sq. Km.) Sl. No. Name of the Major River Basin % to Geographical area of State Total Area Within Odisha 1. Mahanadi 141134 65628 42.15 2. Brahmani 39116 22516 14.46 3. Baitarani 14218 13482 8.66 4. Kolab 20427 10300 6.61 5. Rushikulya 8963 8963 5.76 6. Vamsadhara 11377 8960 5.75 7. Indravati 41700 7400 4.75 8. Burhabalanga & Jambhira 6691 6354 4.08 9. Nagavali 9275 4500 2.89 10. Subarnarekha 19277 2983 1.92 11. Bahuda 1118 890 0.57 All rights reserved by www.ijirst.org 83 Performance of WRF (ARW) over River Basins in Odisha, India During Flood Season 2014 (IJIRST/ Volume 2 / Issue 06/ 015) Fig. 1: Location map of study Area FMOs mainly using the synoptic analogue model to do the same which was developed by each FMO for the area of their jurisdiction. But nowadays most of the countries tilted towards Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) models as NWP methods have achieved better skills and are playing important role in rainfall forecasting. Rainfall prediction skill of NWP model is still not adequate to address satisfactorily detailed aspects of Indian Summer Monsoon. This is because of large spatial and temporal variability of rainfall and some inherent limitations of NWP models. In-spite of these limitations rainfall forecast of NWP models are estimated for its utilization in various fields such as in flood forecasting, water management, planning etc. Operationally the WRF (ARW) 9 x 9 Km2 rainfall forecast is made available to Hydromet division by NWP division at New Delhi and rainfall forecast estimation sub-basin wise for River basins is done by the Hydromet division at New Delhi using the available data. Then this estimation forecast is uploaded in IMD website (www.imd.gov.in) operationally during flood season 2014 as an additional tool for issuing QPF for their sub-basins. This input in turn will be utilized in the flood forecasting purpose. The main aim of this paper is to study the performance of WRF rainfall forecast during heavy rainfall events in the flood season 2014 over river basins under Flood Meteorological Office, Bhubaneswar of IMD. The Figure 1 showing the location of river sub basin map of the study Area. Fig. 2: Rain-gauge Network All rights reserved by www.ijirst.org 84 Performance of WRF (ARW) over River Basins in Odisha, India During Flood Season 2014 (IJIRST/ Volume 2 / Issue 06/ 015) II. Methodology Sub basin wise rainfall forecast estimation for basins lying over the state of Odisha from operational WRF (9kmX9km) gridded rainfall forecast is computed during the flood season. The meso-scale forecast system WRF (ARW) with 3DVAR data assimilation is being operated daily twice, at 9 km horizontal resolutions with 38 Eta levels in the vertical and the integration and with the outer model domain covers the area between lat. 25°S to 45°N long 40°E to 120°E for the forecast up to 3 days using initial and boundary conditions from the IMD GFS-574/L64 (horizontal resolution over the tropics~22km) (http://202.54.31.51/bias/aboutus.php). Following are the Physics options set to operational run of WRF viz. mp_physics- WSM3(3), ra_lw_physics-rrtm scheme(1), ra_sw_physics- Dudhia scheme(1), bl_pbl_physics-YSU(1), cu_physics-GD scheme(3). WRF (9kmx9km) gridded rainfall forecast data which is in netcdf format is averaged for each sub basins using NCAR Command Language (NCL). Observed areal rainfall is computed by taking the average of station rainfall values lying in each sub-basin. The correlation between the sub basin wise observed rainfall and the WRF model rainfall forecast rainfall (mm) table is prepared for flood season 2014 and shown in Table 4. Daily rainfall bar graph over the basin areas is also prepared during the Heavy Rainfall events over FMO Bhubaneswar to identify the dates in which the heavy rainfall occurred. The performance of categorical QPF (0, 1-10 mm, 11-25 mm, 26-50 mm, 51-100 mm, > 100 mm) issued for sub basins is verified from 6X6 categorically for different skill scores viz. Percentage of Correct (PC), Heidke Skill Score (HSS), Critical Success Index (CSI) which is shown in Table 3 month-wise separately during Flood dates. It is to be noted that due to technical issues the WRF Model did not run on 13 Aug, 14 Aug, 15 Aug and 4 Sep 2014, so outputs are not available. III. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION The Rain-gauge network for real time reception of rainfall data in the basins over the Odisha during the flood season 2014 is shown in figure 2. The total number of stations for real time rainfall data reception is 195. The summer monsoon rainfall over Odisha occurs mostly due to monsoon depression, Low Pressure Systems (LPS) developing over the Bay of Bengal and moving along the monsoon trough. The dates of floods during the year 2014 are shown in the table below: Table – 2 Flood dates of 2014 in Odisha Sl. No. Year Flood Dates 1. July 19-22 & July 27-30 2. 2014 Aug 01-17 3. Sep 01-09 A. July 2014 (Flood Period Are 19.07.2014 to 22.07.2014 & 27.07.2014 to 30.07.2014) 1) Synoptic Situation during the Flood Dates The Synoptic situation on 20.07.2014, a low pressure area (LOPAR) was formed over North Bay of Bengal and adjoining areas of Gangetic West Bengal and Odisha with associated cyclonic circulation extends up to Mid tropospheric level. It was rapidly concentrated into a Depression on 21st July 2014 over North Eastern parts of Odisha and adjoining areas of Gangetic West Bengal about 50 km east of Baripada. On 22.07.2014, it was moved over North Chhattisgarh and neighborhood about 50 km Southeast of Pendra. During this period, the axis of monsoon trough on mean sea level was passed through Ganganagar, Aligarh, Fatehpur, Daltonganj, Midnapur and thence Southeast wards to East Central Bay of Bengal across North-west Bay of Bengal. All rights reserved by www.ijirst.org 85 Performance of WRF (ARW) over River Basins in Odisha, India During Flood Season 2014 (IJIRST/ Volume 2 / Issue 06/ 015) Fig. 3: Daily Average Rainfall (mm) from 11 to 22 & 27 to 31 July 2014 On dated 27th July 2014, a low pressure area (LOPAR) has formed over North West Bay of Bengal and neighborhood with associated upper air cyclonic circulation extending up to Mid-Tropospheric level and continued up to dated 28th July 2014. On 29th July 2014, it was concentrated into a Well-Marked Low pressure area over the same region with associated upper air cyclonic circulation extending up to Mid-Tropospheric level and continued up to 30th July 2014 over the same region.
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