The goal of the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting is to leverage the society’s collective strengths so that our broad community can define the steps and scientific advances necessary to minimize the impacts of climate change, and to engage policy makers and the public in that work. This town hall supports the 2024 AMS Annual Meeting theme. The U.S. is facing emerging threats to economic, national security, ecosystem, and habitat health from increasingly limited and stressed water supply and extreme events (floods and drought) nationwide due to aging water infrastructure, degrading water quality, population growth, and climate change. The National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Water Prediction (OWP) is taking steps to transform the nation’s water resources prediction capabilities, ranging from forecasts of floods to yearlong water supply to the quality of water inland and along the coasts, in an ongoing effort to improve impact-based decision support services.  This Town Hall will provide a status update on NOAA’s Next Generation Water Resources Modeling Framework (NextGen), National Water Model (NWM), Flood Inundation Mapping (FIM), Enterprise Hydrofabric Solution, and Precipitation Frequency Atlas (PFA), and how BIL Provision 3 will support their development. By the end of the decade, OWP will implement this comprehensive set of improved and innovative capabilities to implement the next generation water prediction capability. 

Speakers: Tom Graziano, Director, NOAA Office of Water Prediction (OWP); Brian Cosgrove, National Water Model Technical Director, Analysis and Prediction Division; Fred Ogden, Chief Scientist; David Vallee, Director, Service Innovation and Partnership Division (SIP); Sandra Pavlovic, Physical Scientist, Geo-Intelligence Division.  

Support for this Event is provided by:  Riverside Technology, inc; GAMA-1 Technologies, LLC; ASRC Federal; and M2 Strategy, Inc.

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