CHPS User Training

Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS) River Forecast Center (RFC) User Training

Facilitated by: Jim Keeney
Approximate course length: 3.5 hours (time estimate includes completion of all job sheets)
Target Audience: CHPS users at NWS River Forecast Centers
Prerequisite: Introduction to CHPS course

This course provides detailed instruction on how to use the Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS) to produce hydrologic forecast products.

This course is self-paced interactive computer-based training. It is part of a series of CHPS modules located at http://training.weather.gov/nwstc/CHPS/.

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You must complete the course assessment in the NWS Learning Center in order to receive credit for this course.

NWS Learning Center Course Title: Community Hydrologic Prediction System (CHPS) River Forecast Center (RFC) User Training

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

Generate short-term, long-term, and contingency forecasts using CHPS.
Make basic changes to the appearance and behavior of the Interactive Forecast Display (IFD).
Apply modifiers.
Use the tools associated with CHPS.
Perform limited troubleshooting.

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