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... The modernization is incorporating recent technological advances into field offices and thereby laying the groundwork for major benefits to be realized from improved hydrologic products and services. The availability of new tools and techniques is also having a strong, positive effect on the spirit and outlook of NWS personnel.
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... QPFs and pQPFs represent, along with NEXRAD, an opportunity to improve significantly both flash flood prediction and regional runoff estimates that, in turn, impact hydrologic forecasts for larger basins. Thus they are of great value for the development of improved hydrologic services that have longer forecast lead times.
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... However, during severe weather conditions, WFO forecasters are concerned primarily with generating severe weather warning products, which result in the new interactive hydrologic forecast programs receiving less attention than is warranted. There is a risk that RFC guidance products on flooding potential might sometimes be released to the user community with little modification or enhancement by WFO forecasters.
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... In its contacts with field office personnel, the committee found considerable misunderstanding or distrust of modernization activities relating to hydrologic and hydrometeorological functions, products, and services. In particular, the benefits of the integration of certain hydrologic and meteorological duties and responsibilities are neither clearly understood nor readily accepted in many field offices.
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... 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. Early in the modernization planning, the NWS established various working groups, consisting of field office and headquarters personnel, to review requirements and to develop s plans to improve products and services in hydrology and hydrometeorology.
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