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NOAA’s National Weather Service (NWS) River Forecast Centers (RFCs) are key
partners in the provision of water resource information. NOAA’s Community Hydrologic
Prediction System (CHPS) will enable NOAA’s water research and development enterprise and
operational service delivery infrastructure to be integrated and leveraged with other federal
water agency activities, academia, and the private sector.
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CHPS is a Software Architecture
NOAA’s existing computational infrastructure software for water forecasting - the NWS River Forecast System (NWSRFS) - is no longer flexible enough to support the burgeoning needs of the hydrometeorological community of the 21st century. A new, modern CHPS software infrastructure, built on standard software packages and protocols, and open data modeling standards, will provide the basis from which new and existing hydraulic and hydrologic models
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and data can be shared within a broader hydrologic community. Developed using a "service oriented architecture," an emerging standard for large-scale system design, CHPS enables scientists and programmers to work together and rapidly transition new innovative analyses and forecast techniques (e.g., water quality models) from the drawing board to operational deployment.
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CHPS is a New Business Model
CHPS assists the growing community of hydrologic users sharing data and computer models. This requires improved cooperation and coordination within NOAA, as well as with other federal, state, municipal, academic and private institutions. Better coordination among water agencies will improve the accuracy and utility of the entire community's water-based forecasts. CHPS provides a new business model in which members of the hydrometeorological community operate more collaboratively through the sharing and infusion of advances in science and new data, without each member having to build or take ownership of the entire system. |
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