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<br />. <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />7. Use special snow gage and airborne SWE observations to b{:tter "calibrate" the SAA for the GCIP LSA-NC <br />and LSA-NW regions. <br /> <br />8. Provide an annual report describing accomplishments and findings. <br /> <br />9. Provide radar SWE estimates to NOHRSC in near real-time for them to merge with other data sets in <br />development of gridded fields of SWE and snow cover. The first winter (1998-99) of near real-time use of <br />WSR-88D SWE estimates will utilize the Chanhassen radar. <br /> <br />10. Develop and operationally apply a scheme to merge (mosaic) SAA radar-estimated SWE fields from <br />several adjoining radars. <br /> <br />II. Reclamation will accomplish the following during the third year of effort: <br /> <br />1. Continue operational testing of above tasks. <br /> <br />2. Conduct initial operational testing of the new scheme of merging data sets from radar, aircraft, satellite, <br />SNOTEL and snow courses within the Upper Missouri River Basin in partnership with the NOHRSC <br />SNODAS team. Reclamation has considerable facilities within this basin and, therefore, is quite interested in <br />improved spring and early summer streamflow forecasting in the basin. <br /> <br />3. Develop and implement procedures to test and evaluate:' the degree of improvement that better NWS <br />snowmelt and streamflow forecasts provide to Reclamation's water resources management. The focus of this <br />work will be to demonstrate how Reclamation benefits by using improved streamflow forecasts, based on better <br />River Forecast Center (RFC) model initialization and more: accurate SWE and snow cover distributions, <br />partially based on NEXRAD estimates. <br /> <br />4. Coordinate with the Missouri Basin RFC=s Developmental Operational Hydrologist, Reclamation=s water <br />operations managers in Billings, MT, and Reclamation=s meteorological service team in Denver to demonstrate <br />the improved operations derived from use of better snow water equivalent information in the river forecast <br />process through the NWS=s Advanced Hydrologic Prediction System. <br /> <br />5. Provide a final report describing accomplishments and findings, and reports to appropriate conferences and <br />professional journals, and water resource management workshops and seminars. <br /> <br />III. NOAA and Reclamation Budgets <br /> <br />NOTE: Reclamation charges the same fixed burdened ratf: for all GS-13 and GS-14 Federal personnel <br />working either on Reclamation projects or projects for other agencies. This rate includes salary costs and all <br />associated fringe benefits such as annual leave, sick leave, holidays, and insurance. All overhead charges are <br />included in the burdened rate such as costs of secretarial and other support personnel, supervisory personnel, <br />office space, communications and computer networks and their support. Similarly, Contractor charges are <br />burdened rates including all fringe benefits and overhead charges. All personal costs are given below in terms <br />of Full Time Equivalent (FTE); that is, a full year of work. <br /> <br />2 <br />