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

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

3. 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

4. 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

5. Hydrologic Forecasting Course 18-19 OCTOBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

6. Hydrologic Forecasting Course 20 OctoberAM/PMFlood Warning System Cost/Benefit U.S. River/Flood Forecast Operations 21-23 OctoberNWSRFS USERS WORKSHOP 24 OctoberAMField Trip to NWS Missouri Basin River Forecast Center PMStudent Presentations Describing Country Hydrologic Operations

7. Hydrologic Forecasting Course 25-26 OCTOBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Hydrologic Forecasting Course 1-2 NOVEMBERWEEKEND, PERSONAL TIME

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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