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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />7. Begin to use special snow gage and airborne SWE observations to better "calibrate" the SAA <br />for the GCIP LSA-NC and LSA-NW regions. <br /> <br />8. Provide an annual report describing accomplishments and findings. <br /> <br />II. Reclamation will accomplish the following during the second year of effort: <br /> <br />1. Continue the work of 7. above. <br /> <br />2. Provide radar SWE estimates to NOHRSC in near rleal-time for them to merge with other data <br />sets in development of gridded fields of SWE and snow cover. .The first winter (1998-99) of near <br />real-time use of WSR-88D SWE estimates will utilize the Chanhassen radar. <br /> <br />3. Develop a scheme to merge (mosaic) SAA radar-estimated SWE fields from several adjoining <br />radars. <br /> <br />4. Provide an annual report describing accomplishments and findings. <br /> <br />III. Reclamation will accomplish the following during the third year of effort: <br /> <br />1. Conduct initial operational testing of the new scheme of merging data sets from radar, aircraft, <br />satellite, SNOTEL and snow courses within the Upper Missouri River Basin. Reclamation has <br />considerable facilities within this basin and, therefore, is quite interested in improved spring and <br />early summer streamflow forecasting in the basin. <br /> <br />2. Develop and implement procedures to test and evaluate the degree of improvement that better <br />NWS snowmelt and streamflow forecasts provide to Reclamation's water resources management. <br />The focus of this work will be to demonstrate how Reclamation benefits by using improved <br />streamflow forecasts, based on better model initialization and more accurate SWE and snow cover <br />distributions, partially based on NEXRAD estimates. <br /> <br />3. Provide an final report describing accomplishments and findings. <br /> <br />2 <br />