Manual on National Flood Forecast System of China
After1998’sdisastrousfloodinYangtzeRiver,SonghuaRiverandPearlRiver,NFFShasbeendesigned,developed,testedandimplementedbyBOHofMWRassociatedwithrelateduniversitiesandscientificresearchacademies.BasedontheexistingstatusofhydrologicalinformationandforecastinginChina,NFFShasbeendevelopedinClientServerstructures,relyingontheuniformrealtimehydrologicalinformationdatabaseandGISplatform.Itadoptsthestandardizedandadvancedsoftwareandhardwareenvironmentwithmodularandopeningstructuretoeasilyaddnewmodelsandprocedures.Itpossessesthecommonforecastingmodelsandmethodlibrarytopromptlybuildforecastingschemes.Ithasthefunctionsofmodelparameterscalibrationthatcombinesmanualerror-trialandautomaticoptimizationmethods.