Short Course on the Ensemble Framework For Flash Flood Forecasting (EF5)

• Instructors

  Jonathan J. Gourley (NOAA/National Severe Storms Laboratory)                           
  Humberto Vergara (Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations - CIWRO)  
  Jorge Duarte (Cooperative Institute for Severe and High-Impact Weather Research and Operations - CIWRO) 

  EF5 is a distributed hydrologic modeling framework that runs within the Multi-Radar Multi-Sensor (MRMS) system and utilizes the 2-min/1-km radar-only rainfall product. It has been transitioned to the U.S. National Weather Service where it runs operationally and supplies meaningful products to guide the issuance of flash flood warnings. This course will begin with a brief, conference-style overview of the modeling framework. Participants will then access the open-source modeling software, inputs from MRMS rainfall estimates, parameter maps, etc., to run simulations for an actual case of flash flooding. The model results will be displayed in QGIS and assessed using Local Storm Reports and other information they will retrieve online.