. "4 First Step Toward an Effective Climate Service." A Climate Services Vision: First Steps Toward the Future. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2001.
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A Climate Services Vision: First Steps Toward the Future
provides increasingly competent services today. BASC believes that the principles discussed in this report represent the best practices of the various activities and that if applied across all levels of services—local, state, regional, and national—would improve the overall climate services to the nation. The recommendations contained in this report offer concrete first steps to a better integrated national system.