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Appendix B: Federal Disaster Information Centers
Pages 52-57

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... Enhances aviation safety by issuing warnings, forecasts, and analyses of hazardous weather to aircraft in Sight and to the aviation community. The center also forecasts weather conditions affecting domestic and international aviation interests out to two days.
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From page 53...
... Improves numerical weather, marine, and climate predictions at the NCEP through research in data assimilation and modeling. The EMC develops, improves, and monitors data assimilation systems and models of the atmosphere, ocean, and coupled system using advanced methods developed in Appendix B 53
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From page 54...
... URL: http ://nic.fb4.noaa.gov: 8000 FEMA National Mapping and Analysis Center and Regional Offices, FEMA: Washington, D.C. Maintains baseline disaster management data and develops integrated products distributed to regional offices, which further assimilate local information for emergency management purposes.
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From page 55...
... NHC and its parent center, ~ ~c, maintain a continuous watch on tropical cyclones over the Atlantic, Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, and the Eastern Pacific (from May 15 through November 30~; they prepare and distribute hurricane watches and warnings, as wed as marine and military advisories; conduct research to evaluate and improve hurricane forecasting techniques; and are involved in public awareness programs. The TPC is one of nine centers within the NCEP.
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From page 56...
... : Norman, Oklahoma. SPC monitors hourly and forecasts severe and non-severe thunder-storms, tornadoes, winter storms, extreme winds, heavy rain, and other hazardous weather phenomena across the continental United States.
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... Serves as operational center of the Pacific Tsunami Warning System (PTWS) , providing Pacific basin tsunami watches, warnings, and information/education services to the disaster preparedness community and the general public.
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Key Terms

  • tsunami warning
  • warning center
  • hazardous weather
  • national hurricane
  • preparedness community

  • national weather
  • disaster preparedness
  • natural disaster
  • public safety
  • safety measures

  • implement public
  • appropriate entities
  • marine observations
  • heavy rain
  • parent center

  • issuing warnings
  • hazardous volcanoes
  • hurricane center
  • tropical prediction
  • data assimilation

  • weather service
  • pacific tsunami
  • maritime users
  • performs active
  • regional offices

  • numerical weather
  • emc develops
  • extreme weather
  • service field
  • earthquake detection


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