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4 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
4 MANAGEMENT AND OPERATIONAL SUPPORT
Pages 34-40
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The committee found, for example, that flash flood forecasting is not perceived by NWS personnel in some field offices as having high-priority support from NWS headquarters. Part of that perception stemmed from delays in program testing and risk-reduction efforts caused by the 34 unavailability of hardware and software programs to handle the vast amounts of hydrologic and hydrometeorological data and the local models for flash flood products.
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The AWIPS implementation program should be expedited to enable NWS offices to exploit the use of data from new technologies and to realize improvements in the river and flash flood forecasts and warnings. Responsiveness and Follow-Through Activities The NWS has expended substantial time and effort in conducting national disaster surveys, usually in conjunction with representatives from other federal agencies.
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test and incorporate new and innovative algorithms and parameterizations for the NWSRFS and WHFS hydrologic components · develop improved algorithms to estimate precipitation based on NEXRAD measurements · test the performance and validate the use of quantitative precipitation forecast and probabilistic quantitative precipitation forecast in hydrologic models · develop and evaluate operationally topography-based or distributed flood forecasting procedures Conclusion. Although a modest level of NWS hydrology research is in progress or planned, the overall objectives, priorities, relevance, and cohesiveness of research activities within the Office of Hydrology are unclear or absent.
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The NWS should use internal advisory groups consistently throughout major planning, development, test, and implementation phases of the hydrology modernization program. These groups should include field office members and be encouraged to advise NWS headquarters on matters relating to research and development, operational test and evaluation, and overall modernization implementation.
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The course is also designed to enable WFO science operations officers and service hydrology personnel to couple the hydrologic and meteorological functions at the WFO effectively. NWS personnel working on hydrologic operations have also relied on correspondence courses; nearly 55 percent have taken at least one correspondence course in a hydrologyrelated discipline.
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NWS Basic Operational Hydrology Course National Weather Service Training Center Overview of hydrometeorological networks and sensors; introduction to hydrologic modeling principles including river and reservoir routing, snowpack modeling, and model calibration; and overview of administrative reports and forms used for the NWS hydrology program. COMET Hydrometeorology Course Operational application of advanced hydrometeorological networks and sensors; introduction to hydrologic modeling principles including river and reservoir routing, snowpack modeling, and model calibration; and overview of administrative reports and fonns used for the NWS hydrology program.
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Although the new WFO Operational Hydrometeorology Forecasting course may be adequate for WFO meteorological forecasters, it does not adequately meet the needs of service hydrologists, who also serve as the scientific liaisons for WFO hydrology. Recommendation 4-13.
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