Fair Weather:

Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services

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Publication Year:2003

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Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services, Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, National Research Council
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The report examines the roles of the public, private, and academic sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. The report ...
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Front Matter	i-xviii
Executive Summary	1-10	(skim)
1 Introduction	11-22	(skim)
2 The U.S. Weather and Climate Enterprise	23-42	(skim)
3 Public, Private, and Academic Partnerships	43-56	(skim)
4 Legal, Social, Policy, and Economic Framework	57-74	(skim)
5 Impact of Scientific and Technological Advances on Partnerships	75-92	(skim)
6 Improving the Effectiveness of the Weather Enterprise	93-110	(skim)
Appendix A: Committee Charge	111-114	(skim)
Appendix B: Public-Private Provision of Weather and Climate Services: Defining the Policy-Problem, Roger Pielke, Jr., University of Colorado	115-134	(skim)
Appendix C: Major Systems Overview	135-148	(skim)
Appendix D: Private Sector Comments	149-192	(skim)
Appendix E: On Fairness and Self-Serving Biases in the Privatization of Environmental Data, Edward E. Zajac, University of Arizona	193-212	(skim)
Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members	213-218	(skim)
Appendix G: Acronyms	219-220	(skim)

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The report examines the roles of the public, private, and academic sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. The report recommends that the National Weather Service should continue to issue general forecasts and provide unrestricted access to observational data and model results, even though private companies also produce weather forecasts. However, the Weather Service should come up with a new process for deciding whether a particular forecast or weather product should be created by the Weather Service or the private sector.

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"...a fascinating account of the importance of weather and climate information to the US economy and lifestyle, as well as an attempt to recommend new guidelines for 'Effective Partnerships' between the NWS [National Weather Service], private companies, and the universities. ...a fascinating 'behind the scenes' look at the provision of US meteorological services and the inherent problems of 'free' competition."
-- International Journal of Climatology, January 2004

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Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services

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