Numerical Prediction of Precipitation and River Flow over the Russian River Watershed during the January 1995 California Storms

Norman L. Miller University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California

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Precipitation and river flow during a January 1995 flood event over the Russian River watershed in the northern Coastal Range of California were simulated using the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Coupled Atmosphere–River Flow Simulation (CARS) System. The CARS System unidirectionally links a primitive equation atmospheric mesoscale model to a physically based, fully distributed hydrologic model by employing an automated land analysis system. Using twice-daily National Meteorological Center eta model initial data to provide the large-scale forcing to the mesoscale model, the CARS System has closely simulated the observed river flow during the flooding stage, where the simulated river flow was within 10% of the observed river flow at the Hopland gauge station on the Russian River.

Corresponding author address: Norman L. Miller, Global Climate Research Division, University of California-Livermore, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550. E-mail: norm@llnl.gov

Precipitation and river flow during a January 1995 flood event over the Russian River watershed in the northern Coastal Range of California were simulated using the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory's Coupled Atmosphere–River Flow Simulation (CARS) System. The CARS System unidirectionally links a primitive equation atmospheric mesoscale model to a physically based, fully distributed hydrologic model by employing an automated land analysis system. Using twice-daily National Meteorological Center eta model initial data to provide the large-scale forcing to the mesoscale model, the CARS System has closely simulated the observed river flow during the flooding stage, where the simulated river flow was within 10% of the observed river flow at the Hopland gauge station on the Russian River.

Corresponding author address: Norman L. Miller, Global Climate Research Division, University of California-Livermore, P.O. Box 808, Livermore, CA 94550. E-mail: norm@llnl.gov
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