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Category : Hydrological forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Hydrometeorological Service Operations for the 1990's
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Hydrological forecasting
Languages : en
Pages : 612
Book Description
Assessment of Hydrologic and Hydrometeorological Operations and Services
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309056349
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 63
Book Description
Floods are by far the most devastating of all weather-related hazards in the United States. The National Weather Service (NWS) is charged by Congress to provide river and flood forecasts and warnings to the public to protect life and property and to promote the nation's economic and environmental well-being (such as through support for water resources management). As part of a modernization of its technologies and organizational structure, the NWS is undertaking a thorough updating of its hydrologic products and services and the activities that produce them. The National Weather Service Modernization Committee of the National Research Council undertook a comprehensive assessment of the NWS' plans and progress for the modernization of hydrologic and hydrometeorological operations and services. The committee's conclusions and recommendations and their related analysis and rationale are presented in this report.
The National Weather Service Modernization and Systems Acquisition
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on EnvironmentPublisher:
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
The Modernized End-to-end Forecast Process for Quantitative Precipitation Information
Author: National Implementation Plan for Modernization of the National Weather Service for ...
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Category : Meteorological services
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309218012
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) of the National Weather Service (NWS) was a large and complex re-engineering of a federal agency. The process lasted a decade and cost an estimated $4.5 billion. The result was greater integration of science into weather service activities and improved outreach and coordination with users of weather information. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The MAR was both necessary and generally well executed. However, it required revolutionary, often difficult, changes. The procurement of large, complex technical systems presented challenges in and of itself. The MAR also affected the career paths and personal lives of a large portion of the field office workforce. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring presents the first comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR and its impact on the provision of weather services in the United States. This report provides an assessment that addresses the past modernization as well as lessons learned to support future improvements to NWS capabilities.
NOAA's Response to Weather Hazards--has Nature Gone Mad?
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on SpacePublisher:
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Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 88
Book Description
Disastrous Floods on the Trinity, Brazos, Colorado, and Guadalupe Rivers in Texas, December 1991 - January 1992
Author: United States. National Weather ServicePublisher:
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Category : Brazos River (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Modernization of the National Weather Service
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on SpacePublisher:
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Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278
Book Description
Coping with Floods
Author: Giuseppe RossiPublisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9401110980
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
Floods are natural hazards whose effects can deeply affect the economic and environmental equilibria of a region. Quality of life of people living in areas close to rivers depends on both the risk that a flood would occur and the reliability of flood forecast, warning and control systems. Tools for forecasting and mitigating floods have been developed through research in the recent past. Two innovations currently influence flood hazard mitigation, after many decades of lack of significant progress: they are the development of new technologies for real-time flood forecast and warning (based on weather radars and satellites) and a shift from structural to non-structural flood control measures, due to increased awareness of the importance of protecting the environment and the adverse impacts of hydraulic works on it. This book is a review of research progress booked in the improvements of forecast capability and the control of floods. Mostly the book presents the results of recent research in hydrology, modern techniques of real-time forecast and warning, and ways of controlling floods for smaller impacts on the environment. A number of case studies of floods in different geographical areas are also presented. Scientists and specialists working in fields of hydrology, environmental protection and hydraulic engineering will appreciate this book for its theoretical and practical content.