| ADD/SUB |
NWSRFS modeling operation that adds together the
various flows coming into the forecast point (including the local runoff from the UNIT-HG)
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| AHPS |
Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System |
| BASEFLOW |
NWSRFS modeling operation that determines the
baseflow contribution to the hydrograph |
| DAPM |
Data Acquisition Program Manager |
| EAP |
Employee Assistance Program |
| ESP |
Ensemble Streamflow Prediction (a feature of
NWSRFS used for probabilistic forecasting) |
| FEMA |
Federal Emergency Management Agency |
| FGF |
Call sign for the Eastern North Dakota NWS
Office located in Grand Forks, North Dakota, and serving Fargo, Grand Forks, and the
entire Red River of the North Basin |
| HIC |
Hydrologist In Charge (of an RFC) |
| HSA |
Hydrologic Service Area |
| MIC |
Meteorologist in Charge (of a WFO) |
| MKC-API |
NWSRFS modeling operation that determines the
runoff from the basin (a particular form of Antecedent Precipitation Index model) |
| NCRFC |
North Central River Forecast Center (located in
Chanhassen, Minnesota) |
| NDDEM |
North Dakota Department of Emergency Management |
| NEXRAD |
Next Generation Weather Radar (program to deploy
NWS doppler weather radars) |
| NOAA |
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration |
| NOHRSC |
National Operational Hydrologic Remote Sensing
Center (collocated with NCRFC) |
| NWR |
NOAA Weather Radio |
| NWS |
National Weather Service |
| NWSO |
NEXRAD Weather Service Office (office
designation for NEXRAD-equipped weather office prior to official upgrade to WFO) |
| NWS FLDWAV |
NWS Flood Wave model -- a dynamic wave, implicit
solution, one-dimensional, hydraulic model |
| NWSRFS |
National Weather Service River Forecast System
(a software system used by RFCs for river forecasting) |
| OFS |
Operational Forecast System (a component of
NWSRFS) |
| RFC |
River Forecast Center |
| SEUS-E |
Snow Estimation and Updating System - East (a
software system that assimilates snow information to update NWSRFS-designed for
applications outside the mountainous West) |
| SAC-SMA |
Sacramento Soil Moisture Accounting model (an
NWSRFS component) |
| SNOW-17 |
NWSRFS modeling operation for snow accumulation
and melt |
| STAGE-Q |
NWSRFS modeling operation that converts observed
stage values to discharge using the rating curve |
| TATUM |
NWSRFS modeling operation (storage routing
procedure) which routes water coming from upstream to the forecast point |
| UNIT-HG |
NWSRFS modeling operation (Unit Hydrograph) that
converts runoff from the basin into stream channel discharge at the forecast point |
| USACE |
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers |
| USGS |
U.S. Geological Survey |
| WCM |
Warning Coordination Meteorologist |
| WFO |
Weather Forecast Office |
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