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Fair Weather:
Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services
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Status: Available Now
Size: 238 pages, 6 x 9
Publication Year:2003
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ISBN-10: 0-309-08746-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-309-08746-9
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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 |
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| Executive Summary |
1-10 |
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| 1 Introduction |
11-22 |
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| 2 The U.S. Weather and Climate Enterprise |
23-42 |
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| 3 Public, Private, and Academic Partnerships |
43-56 |
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| 4 Legal, Social, Policy, and Economic Framework |
57-74 |
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| 5 Impact of Scientific and Technological Advances on Partnerships |
75-92 |
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| 6 Improving the Effectiveness of the Weather Enterprise |
93-110 |
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| Appendix A: Committee Charge |
111-114 |
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| Appendix B: Public-Private Provision of Weather and Climate Services: Defining the Policy-Problem, Roger Pielke, Jr., University of Colorado |
115-134 |
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| Appendix C: Major Systems Overview |
135-148 |
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| Appendix D: Private Sector Comments |
149-192 |
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| Appendix E: On Fairness and Self-Serving Biases in the Privatization of Environmental Data, Edward E. Zajac, University of Arizona |
193-212 |
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| Appendix F: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members |
213-218 |
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| Appendix G: Acronyms |
219-220 |
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Description
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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