Author(s): Arnejan Van Loenen; Mirwan Rofiq Ginanjar; Pian Soprian Amsori; Irfan Sudono
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Keywords: Indonesia; WFLOW; Delft-FEWS; Data and model integration; Hydrological framework
Abstract: Indonesia is a rapidly developing country and the strain on available water resources increases. To be able to sustainably manage the river basins, long-term and real-time information are necessary. Next to the traditional hydrometeorological data, in recent years datasets from Earth Observation Services have come available. These can complement and extend current datasets. Several instruments were made using those data sets: a hydrological database, a national flood forecasting system, a hydrological drought forecasting system and a water availability assessment system. All these systems use the Delft-FEWS framework for the integration of data and models and the hydrological simulations are done by the WFLOW distributed hydrological model. The government of Indonesia aims at opening up the data and information on the field of hydrometeorology. Therefore, the developed instruments need to be consolidated and integrated, which is relatively easy since they share the same framework, input data, and models. PusAir and BMKG have taken the initiative to set-up the Pusat Studi Hidrologi (Water Centre of Excellence) that will provide the backbone for the integration. With this Center of Excellence, all available data and information on national hydrology will be accessible to all stakeholders, from national institutes to river-basin management organizations. In this paper, we describe the aim of the system, as well as its components and its foreseen application.
Year: 2018