1. 1 Status of the PROMMA Project Activities Comisíon Nacional del Agua U.S. National Weather Service

2. 2 Outline of Presentation Overview of NOAA/NWS PROMMA Project Overview of Technical Activities Future Project Technical Focus/Future Cooperation Ideas for Guaranteeing Future Success

3. 3 Project Basis Five-Year Agreement Signed May 1996 New Five-Year Agreement Forthcoming Activities Defined in Annual Letters of Agreement Last One for 2001 Activities Draft Proposal in Review for 2002 Activities Overview of NOAA/NWS Project

4. 4 Goals and Objectives Provide CNA Staff with Technologies, Training and Practical Experience Needed to Implement River Forecasting and Associated Technologies That are Essential to Mitigate the Loss of Life and Property Caused by Floods and to Improve the Management of Water Resources for Mexico’s Well Being Overview of NOAA/NWS Project

5. 5 Project Team NOAA/NWS Program Director – Curt Barrett NOAA/NWS Project Coordinator – Robert Jubach Prime Contractor – Riverside Technology, inc. Project Manager – Mark Woodbury Overview of NOAA/NWS Project

6. 6 Overview of Technical Activities

7. 7 Implementation of River Forecast Systems

8. 8 Forecast System Requirements  Model Selection/Configuration  Hydrologic Inventory/Analysis  Model Calibration  System Setup and Implementation  Daily Operations  Maintenance

9. 9 Interactive Forecast Program

10. 10 Status Ríos Fuerte, Yaqui, Bravo, and Pánuco Complete Tool and Procedure Developed to Generate Graphical Forecast Products Graphical User Interface Developed to Expedite Operations Operational Support Continues Training Continues Implementation of River Forecast Systems

11. 11 Graphical User Interface to NWSRFS

12. 12 Map-based Interface Forecast Products

13. 13 Facilitated Dialogue Between West Gulf River Forecast Center and Mexico Involved in NWS and International Boundary and Water Commission Meetings Organized a Meeting in Fort Worth, TX to Demonstrate Operation of Forecast Center to CNA Engineers Coordination of Border Data and Information Exchange

14. 14 Training Training topics: data collection, data analysis, hydrologic model calibration, forecast system initialization, forecast operations Participation from GASIR, IMTA, CILA, GRNO, GRRB CNA participation in implementations: provided increased access to data, insights into data quality and CNA water resources management practices Cooperative development: GASIR engineers performed significant portions of the Rio Pánuco development Ongoing operations training

15. 15 Training A Total of 7040 Person Hours of ‘Formal’ Workshop Training 17 Different People

16. 16 Flood Inundation Mapping

17. 17 Satellite Precipitation Estimates Available From Two Sources and in Two Formats –Auto-Estimator (U.S.) –EpprepMex (Mexico) –Animated Hourly Precipitation Est. (Meteor.) –Gridded Precipitation Data (Hydrologists) Technique Developed for Bias Correction for Mexico Satellite-Based Precipitation Estimation