MD-WERP tactical project: Demonstrating the ability of long-range forecasts to enhance annual environmental water planning
Project Lead: CSIRO
This report demonstrates a proof-of-concept approach to forecasting wetland inundation at sub-seasonal to annual time scales and assesses its performance.
Models to predict the floodplain water volumes from observed inflows and antecedent conditions, and to predict the spatial extent of inundation from the floodplain water volume, were developed for both study regions. These models were then combined with inflow forecasts to forecast floodplain water volumes and maps of the probability of inundation.