Dear Participants,
We have added one more activity for this week. By the end of this week you'll need to decide on a topic for the Final Writing Assignment and inform us.
The link for same has been added in the course website ( Week 2 activities)
Click on the link of "Final Writing Assignment Choice" then click on "Add a new discussion Topic" and then write about your assignment topic in brief and submit.
For your final assignment, you have to choose one of the three following topics:
Option A) Discuss the work responsibilities of your office. What are the particular services your office provides to the government/administration/other organisations or to the public? What data sources do you rely on to accomplish your responsibilities? What areas in the process needs the most improvement (for example: access to data, computation limitations, staffing limitations)?
Option B) Report about your local hydrological conditions. Describe the hydrologic variability in your area of concern ( e.g. seasonal variability of precipitation, flooding, drought, groundwater issues, etc.).
Option C) Outline the strengths and weaknesses of your local hydrologic forecasting system. Provide a detailed description of your current operational flood forecast methodology. What are some of its significant shortcomings and what sorts of tools, data, programs and infrastructure are needed to improve the forecast system?
All the best.
Dattakumar