The information within this README.changes document includes changes, additions, and deletions that have been made to the AWARDS/ET Toolbox processing for the Middle Rio Grande. This information has been applied to the February 18, 2004 ET Toolbox Documentation and is now included in the latest version of the documentation dated October 8, 2008 (version 2.1). Activities that are "Pending" will be included in later versions. DATE Activity Status of ET Toolbox Documentation ------------- ------------------------------------------------ -------------------- May 23, 2013 Updated the Agricultural vegetation classifications Pending from the 2011 MRGCD crop report acres to the 2012 MRGCD crop report acres, resulting in about a 1% increase in agricultural acres. All Toolbox ET values are now based on these acres starting January 1, 2013. There are no changes in the Riparian acres. May 1, 2013 Removed "Tamarisk ET Model Research and Comparisons" Pending from the website due to lack of data. April 25, 2013 Removed "Candelaria Farms Field Scheduling on Alfalfa Pending Field" from the website due to lack of data. April 16, 2013 The AWARDS/ET Toolbox is converted from the SUSE Pending Linux operating system to the Community ENTerprise Operating System (CENTOS) Linux. April 11, 2013 On the Pecos River map fixed the Brantley Reservoir Pending pop-up to display reservoir plot and data. The Avalon data are not available at this time. April 11, 2013 The New Mexico State Climate Center weather data Pending are zero for this year. When available again, we'll post a message here. June 27, 2012 Upon advice from Middle Rio Grande research personnel, Pending the Toolbox has started using the 1985 Hargreaves method for calculating Reference ET, which is a temperature based equation. All Toolbox ET values are now based on this method starting January 1, 2012. Lack of quality wind, solar, and humidity data, which are required by other methods, has forced this decision. Once quality data become available the Toolbox may revert back to the ASCE Standaridized method. June 27, 2012 The growing degree day based crop coefficients have Pending been replaced with coefficients developed by researchers in the Middle Rio Grande. A combination of temperature, stage-of-growth, and monthly processes is implemented. These processes can be altered as more research and discussion evolves. This has resulted in lower agricultiral ET estimates and higher riparian and open water estimates. April 4, 2012 The ET Toolbox is now using the ASCE Pending Standaridized method for calculating Reference ET. All Toolbox ET values are now based on this method starting January 1, 2012. April 4, 2012 Changed the vegetation classifications: Pending Agricultural = MRGCD crop reports from year 2011. Riparian = Combination of year 2000 IKONOS at 4 meter resolution and year 2001 Utah State Univ. at .5 meter resolution. This change also reduces the extent of the classifications to the river corridor, resulting in a significant reduction in riparian consumptive use. Oct. 6, 2011 Improved the retrieval timing of the USGS streamflow Pending data. Sept. 28, 2011 The termiante (stop) date for all agricultural crops Pending is now October 31. This affects Corn and Sorghum which prior to this change had earlier dates. Termination may also occur earlier as a function of the summation of growing degree days and the crop curve. Sept. 22, 2011 The old Belen, North, and South schematics were Pending removed. August 25, 2011 New stream flow schematic for the Socorro Division Pending was implemented. May, 4, 2011 The delination between river Reaches 5 and 6 was Pending changed to reflect the demise of the Bernardo Rio Grande USGS stream flow measurement gage. The delination is now at the State Hwy. 346 near Bosque, Nm measurement gage. February 24, 2011 The ET Toolbox is now using the FAO-56 Pending Penman-Monteith method for calculating Reference ET. All Toolbox ET values are now based on this method starting January 1, 2011. February 18, 2010 New stream flow schematics for the Rio Grande, and Pending Cochiti, Albuquerque, and Belen Divisions were implemented. A new Water Management schematic showing reservoir data and Reach depletions, inflows, and gain/loss values was alsa implemented. August 27, 2009 The Tamarisk ET Model and Comparisons broke on Pending September 9, 2008 due to lack of real-time hourly weather data at the South Bosque weather station. In August, 2009 these data became available from Salim Bawazir at NMSU. The model was reuun for all of 2008 and through July 24, 2009. July 14, 2009 Data from the COAGMET station near La Jara, CO Pending is no longer available since July 3, 2009. June 2, 2009 Modified the crop coefficient for Open Water and Pending Wet Sands. This is based on results of the "Open Water/Wet Soil Evaporation From The Rio Grande" final report dated April 2007. The report states that the Toolbox over predicts by 31% - however the Lidar study was done in unusually rainy and high flow conditions. This change reduces the Jensen Oct. 98 Open-Water monthly coefficients by 15% until a more realistic Lidar or other study can be accomplished. This change affects all Open Water and Wet Sands ET since January 1, 2009. April 16, 2009 Reinstated the Colorado State Univ. COAGMET stations Pending in the Upper Rio Grande area which are two stations near Center, Co and one station near La Jara, CO. The Blanca and San Acacio stations have no data. April 8, 2009 Modified weather and stream flow data acquisition Pending timing to better reflect when data are available. April 3, 2009 Updated map positioning of some NMSUCC weather Pending stations. Feb. 11, 2009 Installed Ladd S Gordon weather station in Reach 5. Pending Jan. 28, 2009 The AWARDS/ET Toolbox is converted from the Sun Pending Solaris computer to an IBM System 3650 computer running the SUSE Linux operating system. Oct. 8, 2008 Various edits, additional USBR Pumping Station information, and new Flow Diagram figures results in version 2.1. August 28, 2008 The Basin Overview Plots were modified. The green plots of Daily Consumptive Use are now Daily Net Water Use which is the Daily Consumptive Use minus Rain. May 1, 2008 New Stream Flow Products figure in the documentation results in version 2.0.1. April 24, 2008 Version 2.0 of the documentation is completed except for chapter 22. December 10, 2007 Installed Toni Barrow Farm weather station in Reach 5. December 10, 2007 Removed Los Chavez Bosque weather station from Reach 5. November 13, 2007 Re-installed Prices Dairy Farm weather station October 29, 2007 Removed Prices Dairy Farm weather station from Reach 4 processing until it is repaired. October 23, 2007 Revised the web-site New Mexico home page to allow more direct access to the Awards and ET Toolbox products. October 4, 2007 Added forecast rain for forecast days 4-7. These data are Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts from the National Centers for Environmental Prediction Global Forecasting System model. The resolution of this forecasted days 4-7 rain is 1 degree by 1 degree (110km north-south by 90km east-west). June 21, 2007 Modified the New Mexico home page to allow a more direct link to the MRGCD Stream Flow Schematics. These also remain available from the New Mexico map. June 14, 2007 On June 15, 2007, the old AWARDS/ET Toolbox based on the HRAP 4x4 km grid, 3-day Eta forecast, and old URGWOM river reach delineations will be shut down. User's will automatically be redirected to the new QPESUMS (abbreviated to QPE) site that is briefly explained in the May 9, 2007 notes, below. Documentation of this new site is under way. In the meantime, information for QPESUMS can be found at: http://www.nssl.noaa.gov/projects/qpesums/ Information for seven-day weather forecasting by the National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) models can be found at: http://www.weather.gov/ndfd/ June 13, 2007 1. Modified the AWARDS ET charts by replacing the QPF (Quantitative Precipitation Forecast) values with 3-day NDFD (National Digital Forecast Data). 2. Removed the Candelaria Farms Future 3-days Air Temperature and Relative Humidity plot since we no longer acquire hourly forecast data. May 9, 2007 Numerous changes have been made to the AWARDS/ET Toolbox. On May 8, 2007 the following were implemented: 1. Quantitative Precipitation Estimation and Segregation Using Multiple Sensors (QPESUMS) on an approximate 1-km grid. 2. Eight new URGWOM river reaches. 3. Seven-day National Digital Forecast Database (NDFD) weather forecasting models (although the rain is forecasted for only 3-days, and the solar radiation is approximated from min and max temperatures with coefficients). This forecast is on a 5-km grid. 4. URGWOM ET maps for each reach, with 1-week animation. 5. Improved ET estimates at 1-km cells that bisect reach boundaries. 6. Implemented open water evaporation estimates for the Rio Grande using the FLO2D model. 7. Estimating wet sands evaporation within the banks of the Rio Grande. 8. Estimating evaporation from Elephant Butte Reservoir 9. Estimating Tamarisk ET in the Bosque Del Apache using the Utah State Univ. model. 10. Removed cell rainfall postings. 11. Revised design of the Middle Rio Grande web site. The old HRAP 4-km, old reaches, and 3-day Eta 12-km forecast site is still available until June 15, 2007. June, 2006 Rio Chama/Velarde area window created, using an estimated crop land distribution of 30% orchard, 30% alfalfa, and 40% pasture grass. April 6, 2006 Generated historic ET summation information for each of the eight new URGWOM river reaches, based on the HRAP 4-km grid cells, for years 2000-2005. April, 2006 Implemented a new stream flow schematic for the MRGCD Belen Division May, 2005 Implemented Candelaria Farms Firld Scheduling and soil moisture measurements at many MRGCD weather stations August 4, 2004 The NMSUCC South Bosque (SBOS) hourly data is now included in the MRGCD Weather Station Network hourly pop-up image (fig. 20 in the documentation). This supports the ET Model for Tamarisk - see July 14, 2004. July 27, 2004 MRGCD weather stations are added: Name Activated ------------------------------------- --------- CQFN Cisto Quintana Farm - NM - MRGCD May 4,2004 CSBN Corrales Bosque - NM - MRGCD May 4,2004 PDFN Prices Dairy Farm - NM - MRGCD July 13,2004 BWWN Bosque Farms - NM - MRGCD May 6, 2004 LCZN Los Chavez Bosque - NM - MRGCD July 13,2004 GWFN Gus Wagner Farm - Nm - MRGCD July 13,2004 The AWARDS/ET Toolbox is rerun each day from January 1. Therefore, data from the the NCEP Eta 12 km model is used until the station is active. July 14, 2004 Added the Model for Daily Evapotranspiration of Tamarisk at the Bosque Del Apache, as detailed in a paper by Hipps and Hattori, USU. To see the results of the study, go to the inter-active AWARDS/ET Toolbox image, and click on the small white square box to the left of the Bosque window. From there, click on Tamarisk ET Model and Comparisons. June 29, 2004 Modified nexrad rainfall usage; now based on vegetative start and terminate dates rather than the entire year. June 8, 2004 Now Using the newer GIS information for land classification, a combination of the 2000 IKONOS satellite imagery at 4 meter resolution and the 2001 Utah State University (USU) aerial photography at .5 meter resolution. The IKONOS is used from Cochiti Dam to Elephant Butte Reservoir headwaters (Reaches 1-7). The USU exists in a small part of Reach 3, Reaches 4, 5, and 6, and part of Reach 7. Wherever the USU exists, the IKONOS was erased and the USU was inserted. This replaces the 1992/93 Land Use Trend Analysis (LUTA), plus others. The Toolbox was/is rerun every day from January 1, 2004 to present with these newer GIS data for all vegetation groups. The historic runs, from 1975 through 2003, continue to be based on the LUTA, plus others. June 7, 2004 Implemented the Nambe window. June 3, 2004 The Daily ET Rate Tables (fig. 18 in the documentation) now contain the GIS classification number. May 26, 2004 MRGCD weather stations are added: Name Activated ------------------------------------- --------- BBAN Bosque Bar - NM - MRGCD Mar. 2, 2004 ASFN Adolf Sanchez Farm - NM - MRGCD May 4, 2004 The AWARDS/ET Toolbox is rerun each day from January 1. Therefore, data from the the NCEP Eta 12 km model is used until the station is active.