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Hydro Training Status

HSD MeetingFebruary 23, 2010

Mark Glaudemans

OCWWS/HSD

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Outline

• Training Group Summary– COMET, NWSTC, FDTB

• FY10 Training– Residence, Virtual, Online– AHPS Training

• FY11 NSTEP Planning• CHPS

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COMET Training

• Recent Modules– Estimation of Observed Precipitation

• Part I - Spring 2009

• Part II – January 2010

– Distributed Modeling for Flow Forecasts, Part I, Sep 2009

• Active Modules– Techniques in Hydrologic Forecast Verification (HY21) – QPF Verification (HY29), Part I and Part II – Distributed Modeling for Flow Forecasts, Part II

• Recent Residence– QPF For Hydro Modeling (HY19) Jun 2009

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NWSTC Training

• Recent Modules– WFO Hydro Apps modules, Spring 2009

• Active Modules– GFE for RFCs (HY33), Summer 2010

• Coordinated with FY10 RFC Workshop

• Recent Residence– Adv Hydro Apps, Nov 2008– WCM, SCH, Dec 2008– WFO Hydro Program Mgmnt, Mar 2009

• Includes virtual, online portions

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FDTB Training

• Recent Modules– Theory of Hydro Ensemble Prediction – Part I (HY20)

• Active Modules– Theory of Hydro Ensemble Prediction – Part II (HY20)– Static Flood Inundation Mapping (HY27)

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FY10 Training

• FY10 Residence– NWSTC

• Adv Hydro Apps (3 courses)• Hyd Prog Mgmnt (July; includes virtual/online)

– COMET• FF/QPE (March 2010)

– Special/CSC• Flood Inundation Mapping QC (March; residence/webinar)

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FY10 Training

• Virtual Courses (COMET)– QPF for Hydro Modeling (HY19) [August]

– QPF and FF (ME09) [late summer]

• Module Development– COMET

• Techniques in Hydrologic Forecast Verification (HY21)

• QPF Verification (HY29), Part I and Part II

• Distributed Modeling for Flow Forecasts , Part II

– FDTB• Short and Long-term Ensembles – Part II (HY20)

• Static Flood Inundation Mapping (HY27)

– NWSTC• GFE for RFCs (HY33)

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FY10 Training

• HPC Visits – January (?) HPC email to each RFC soliciting requests– Can request a visit to RFC or sending person to HPC– Visits generally 2-3 days– $5K usually funds 4-6 visits.

COMET $227k

ER,CR,SR,WR $10k

AR $8k

RFC/HPC Visits $5k

AHPS FY10 Hydro Training

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FY10 Training

• FY10 Workshops– GFE/RFC, NWSTC, Q4– Ensembles

• At risk; consider HEC-RAS training???

– CHPS allocation (migration workshop)

• FY09 Workshops– Verification, CBRFC, Dec 2008– Calibration, LMRFC, Mar 2009– Steady HEC-RAS, HEC, Apr 2009– Unsteady HEC-RAS, NERFC, Apr 2009, 2 CAT

RFCs

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FY10 Training

• Priority Reserve List Possibilities– Two hydro topics rated high

• Cold Region Hydrology• QPE Tools

– Both submitted as FY11 Performance Needs Statements (PNSs)

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FY11 NSTEP

• 16 Hydro PNSs Submitted• Guaranteed Funding

– Adv Hyd Science Residence– WCM/SCH Residence (WM04)– Cold Region Hydro may be a lock based on discussions

• Process– PNSs provided late January– Ranking performed late February– April meeting in Boulder– Plan public early July

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FY11 NSTEP Priorities

• Top 4– CHPS– Workshops– Ensemble topics

• Middle 6 tightly packed– QPE Tools– WFO Prog Mgmnt– Adv WFO Hydro Apps– Flash Flood Ops– Cold Region Hydro– HEC-RAS

• Near-bottom 3– QPF– Inundation QC– Water Supply

• Bottom 2– AWIPS updates for

RFCs/WFOs

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FY11 NSTEP

• Other FY11 PNS– GIS topics (GEO01/02)– Sat Remote Sensing for Hydro (IS06)– AWIPS Variance/FFMP (IT06)– Decision Support (ME41)– Storm Survey (ME60)– Professional Development Series (PDS) update

for each program area (Hydro: IN09)

• Hydro Competencies Action

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CHPS Training

• Need– Most urgent– Largest

• Solution– Near-term solution focus on Deltares– Long-term solution focus on NWSTC

• CHPS Training Plan– Being developed by OHD– Coordinated with HSD

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Conclusion

Questions/Discussion?