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Interactive forecasting with the national weather service river forecast system
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Page, Donna Smith, George F. |
| Copyright Year | 1993 |
| Description | The National Weather Service River Forecast System (NWSRFS) consists of several major hydrometeorologic subcomponents to model the physics of the flow of water through the hydrologic cycle. The entire NWSRFS currently runs in both mainframe and minicomputer environments, using command oriented text input to control the system computations. As computationally powerful and graphically sophisticated scientific workstations became available, the National Weather Service (NWS) recognized that a graphically based, interactive environment would enhance the accuracy and timeliness of NWS river and flood forecasts. Consequently, the operational forecasting portion of the NWSRFS has been ported to run under a UNIX operating system, with X windows as the display environment on a system of networked scientific workstations. In addition, the NWSRFS Interactive Forecast Program was developed to provide a graphical user interface to allow the forecaster to control NWSRFS program flow and to make adjustments to forecasts as necessary. The potential market for water resources forecasting is immense and largely untapped. Any private company able to market the river forecasting technologies currently developed by the NWS Office of Hydrology could provide benefits to many information users and profit from providing these services. |
| File Size | 622506 |
| Page Count | 10 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19930016427 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t7xm37c08 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1993-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Hydrology Minicomputers Display Devices Weather Forecasting Graphical User Interface Unix Operating System Central Processing Units Rivers Workstations Meteorological Services Floods Water Resources Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
