National Weather Service Hydrologic Forecasting Course Agenda 14 October – 7 November 2003

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 14 OctoberAMOpening Ceremony/Orientation Introduction Overview of WMO Program Hydrological Operational Multipurpose System (HOMS) NWS Mission, Organization, NWS Operations

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 14 OctoberPMWorld Water Crisis Selected Water-related Videos Disaster Mitigation/Integrated Water Resources Management Data Acquisition – Rainfall Sensors Concept of Operations Designing, Operating, Maintaining and Sustaining Hydrometeorological Monitoring Networks

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 15 OctoberAM/PMHydrologic Models – Conceptual Models, Unit Hydrograph, S Curves 16 OctoberAM/PMIntroduction to Runoff Computations – Rainfall Abstraction Models, Sacramento Model, Other Soil Moisture Accounting Models Review of Modeling Techniques – Theories/Empirical Models, Systems 17 OctoberAM/PMModel Calibration Hydraulic Models – FLDWAV Stream Flow Routing – Simple/Complex, Lag&K, Muskingum

Hydrologic Forecasting Course OCTOBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 20 OctoberAM/PMFlood Warning System Cost/Benefit U.S. River/Flood Forecast Operations OctoberNWSRFS USERS WORKSHOP 24 OctoberAMField Trip to NWS Missouri Basin River Forecast Center PMStudent Presentations Describing Country Hydrologic Operations

Hydrologic Forecasting Course OCTOBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 27 OctoberAMFLDWAV Hydraulic Model – Description and Applications PMFLDWAV Model Demonstration 28 OctoberAMReservoir Operations PMHEC Programs and Models 29 OctoberAMRemote Sensing in Hydrology – Satellite Rainfall, Vegetation, Snow, Soil Moisture, Flood Inundation, Other GOES-DCS

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 29 OctoberPMUse of Radar in Hydrology Radar-Derived Precipitation Multiple Platform Precipitation Estimation 30 OctoberAMMeteorological Forecast Applications – Short Term Quantitative Precipitation Forecasts, Climate Forecasts PMDrought Prediction/Mitigation

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 31 OctoberAMHydrologic Measurements – Rating Curves GIS in Hydrology – Estimating Hydrologic Modeling parameters, Real-time Flood Inundation Modeling, New Satellite/High Resolution Data PMSnowmelt Modeling Probabilistic Forecasting – Ensemble Streamflow Forecasting, ESP-ADP Model and Demo

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 1-2 NOVEMBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 3 NovemberAMFlash Flood Forecasting – NWS and Other Approaches, Flash Flood Guidance PMWeather Forecast Office Hydrologic Forecast System (Demo) Flash Flood Monitoring and Prediction, FFMP (Demo) RFC-Wide Multisensor Precipitation Estimator (Demo) ALERT Systems

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 4 NovemberAM Water Management and Flood Mitigation Linking Forecasts to Users Decision Support Systems PMPreparedness and Response Planning Forecast Costs/Benefits 5 NovemberAMClimate Forecasting PMPhysics-based Distributed Modeling for Flood Forecasting

Hydrologic Forecasting Course 6 NovemberAM/PMFuture of Hydrologic Forecasting – Small Scale Flash Flood Forecasting, Coupling of Hydrologic and Meteorological Models 7 NovemberAM/PMFINAL EXAM Course Review Evaluations Closing Ceremony