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An International Hydrologic Analysis and Forecasting Course
Conducted by UCAR/COMET with the support of NOAA/NWS

Agenda

Week 1, 8-14 June

Sun		Mon, 9 June	Tue, 10 June	Wed, 11 June	Thu, 12 June	Fri, 13 June	Sat
T R A V E L	8:30 AM Registration Welcome (Spangler/COMET) Logistics (Harrison/COMET) Introductions Opening remarks from WMO [on DVD] (Jarraud) WMO Hydrology WMO HOMS (Caponi) Class Agenda & COMET Hydro (Kelsch/COMET)		8:00 AM Student Presentations Workstation intro and self-guided manual Part 1 Part 2 (Ng/Metro State)	8:00 AM The basics of Quantitative Precipitation Forecasting QPF I QPFII (QPF) (Ng/Metro State College) QPF-III, Intense rain and Flash Flood (Kelsch/COMET) Africa Precipitation: Propagation & Diurnal Variability (Laing/ COMET)	8:00 Radar/Rain Gauge QPE (Kelsch/COMET) Satellite QPE Hydro-Nowcaster Hydro-Estimator (Kuligowski /NOAA ) GOES DCS and RADARSAT (Kuligowski / NOAA )	8:00 WRF QPF (Rozumalski/ NOAA) RFC Operations (Shelton/NOAA ) Precip Enhancement (Breed/NCAR) Precip Climatology (Kelsch/COMET)	9:30 - 3:00 Field Trip 1: Visit Meteo-Star Photos (Stevermer) Bus pickup at hotel 9:30AM Free Lunch
	11:45 Lunch		11:45 Lunch	11:45 Lunch	11:45 Lunch	11:45 Lunch
C H E C K I N	Local Climate (Kelsch/COMET) NWS Hydro (Tatusko /NOAA ) World Water Crisis; End-to-end hydro system (Barrett /NOAA ) Designing Real Time hydromet network (Barrett /NOAA ) RealTime Hydro Forecast Program, sys capability for NWS: NWSRFS, FFMP (Barrett /NOAA ) GIS in hydrology Lab (Johnson /Juniata College) Student presentations		Hydro-Weather Talk Student Presentations	Hydro-Weather Talk Lab: QPF on 18 Aug 2007 Lab -A Lab -B Lab -C (Kelsch/COMET, Ng/Metro State College)	Hydro-Weather Talk MPE/HPE (Shelton /NOAA ) Lab:QPE on 30 Aug 2003 Lab - A Lab - B (Shelton/NOAA Kelsch/COMET)	Hydro Weather Talk AHPS and exercise (Stevermer COMET) Lab: Real Time AIHPS (Kelsch/ Stevermer) Finish Quiz
	4:30 Reception		4:30 Adjourn	4:30 Adjourn	4:30 Adjourn	4:15 Adjourn

Week 2, 15-21 June

Sun	Mon, 16 June	Tue, 17 June	Wed, 18 June	Thu, 19 June	Fri, 20 June	Sat
9:00- NOON Optional Local Hike (Kelsch) (Free)	8:00 AM Global System on Flash Flood Guidance and Prediction (Shamir/ Hydrological Research Center ) Urban Hydrology (Kelsch/COMET)	8: 00 AM Dambreak: Lawn Lake (Johnson/Juniata College) Landslide/Debris Flow (Godt and Staley/USGS) Fire and Hydrology (Page/COMET)	7:00 AM Field Trip (Kelsch/COMET, Johnson/Juniata College) -Meet at Hotel Fort Collins Urban Flood Control Emergency Response Talk (Hilmes/City of Fort Collins) Visit Big Thompson Canyon: Stream flow estimates	8: 00 AM Noah Land model;GFS-Noah Flow Forecasting Part 1 Part 2 (Toth/NOAA ) Coupled ECMWF & hydro model (Hopson/NCAR) Hydrologic Models: Runoff, Soil Moisture SACSMA, Continuous API, Routing/Lag&K (Johnson/Juniata College)	8: 00 AM RTi Day: NWSRFS Overview NWS Snow Mode NWS River Forecast System	7:00 Optional morning hike (Kelsch) Free
	11:45 Lunch	11:30 Lunch	11:00 Box Lunch in Big Thompson	11:45 Lunch	11:45 Lunch	7:00 Optional morning hike (Kelsch) Free
	Hydro Weather Talk FFMP/FFG (Kelsch/COMET) FFMP Lab: Urban setting-change FFG - Lab A - Lab B (Kelsch/COMET)	Hydro Weather Talk FFMP lab: Fire - Lab A - Lab B (Kelsch/COMET) WRF-Hydro Model: Fort Collins Flood (Gochis/NCAR) Field Trip Overview (Kelsch/COMET)	1:30 Rocky Mtn Park Visitor Center 2:30 Lawn Lake Dambreak Site Photos: Fort Collins Flood Site Big Tompson River Lawn Lake Snow	Hydro Weather Talk (Kelsch/COMET) Morning topics continued, with lab (Johnson/Juniata College)	Hydro Weather Talk & Plan for weekend group hike RTi Day (continued): Model Calibration Operational Forecast System - Data Flow NWSRFS - Ensemble Streamflow Prediction Finish Quiz
	4:30 Reception	4:30 Adjourn	4:30 Hotel	4:30 Adjourn	4:30 Adjourn

Week 3, 22-28 June

Sun	Mon, 23 June		Tue, 24 June	Wed, 25 June	Thu, 26 June	Fri, 27 June	Sat
Optional Activity Celestial Teas Rockies Baseball Leaning Tree (Stevermer)	7:30 AM Field Trip 3- Meet at NOAA: Visit WFO/Talk EMWIN and AHPS (Huse/NOAA) 9:15 NOAA's Science on a Sphere (LeFebvre/NOAA) 10:00 Depart for NCAR ML 10:30Tour ML & weather trail, climate change book (Henson/NCAR)		8:00 Model Comparisons DELFT, FLDWV, HECRAS, DAMBRK, and FLDWV history (Johnson/Juniata College) Basic Equations (Johnson /Juniata College)	8:00 Unsteady Flow cont./ Bridges and Lab( Johnson /Juniata College ) Dam Failure w/Lab (Johnson/Juniata College)	8:00 Disseminating Products EM Network RANET GTS (Branski /NOAA) FEMA talk on Preparedness and Response (Bausch/ FEMA) AHPS Lab Review (Stevermer & Kelsch/COMET)	8:00 *Societal Impacts and WASIS [Weather and Society Integrated Studies](Gruntfest /NCAR) Societal Impact study of flash flood in France (Isabelle Ruin/NCAR) Future Plans in Global Hydrology/CHPS** (Restrepo /NOAA)	H A P P Y T R A V E L S
		11:45 Lunch at NCAR ML	11:45 Lunch	11:45 Lunch	11:30 Lunch	11:30 Lunch
	1:00 Main Seminar Room ALERT Program (Stewart/Denver UDFCD) Hydrologic Response to Climate Change (Dai/NCAR) Drought (Dai/NCAR)		Hydro Weather Talk Steady and Unsteady Flow Situation and Lab (Johnson /Juniata College)	Hydro Weather Talk Flood Mapping w/ Lab w/Lab (Johnson /Juniata College)	Hydro Weather Talk Decision Support/ CADSWES and Riverware demo (Don Frevert/ BOR, and David Neumann/ CADSWES) 3:30 Adjourn	Travel Forecast Finish Quiz Evals Certificates
	4:00 Adjourn		4:30 Reception	4:30 Adjourn	5:30 Vaisala Picnic	4:00 END

Forecasting Course, please contact class_admin@comet.ucar.edu or +1 303 497 8470.

Last Updated May 2008

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