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A Vision for the National Weather Service Road Map for the Future (1999) / Chapter Skim
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5 Road Map for the Future
Pages 62-66

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From page 62...
... The recommendations appear under four headings: realizing potential benefits to the nation; applying enabling science and technologies; merging weather information services into environmental information services; and meeting organizational challenges. 62 REALIZING BEN EFITS TO TH E NATION The formal NWS modernization and restructuring has provided the foundation for the NWS to become a dynamic, bold, responsive weather service that can lead the way in realizing enormous benefits to the nation.
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From page 63...
... Maintain a research staff of sufficient size and expertise at the national centers to develop new forecast techniques and products that further their broad national missions. Work with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to strengthen National Weather Service interactions with the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service and the Environmental Research Laboratories, ensuring that their combined activities are coherent, systematic, and mutually supportive.
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From page 64...
... Department of Commerce, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration should provide stable and adequate funding to the National Weather Service consistent with its needs and plans. The diverse and rapidly evolving user community, advancing technology, and changing relationships among members of the weather community will require a parallel evolution in the organizational structures of NOAA and the relationships among its components, including NWS, the National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service, and the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research.
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From page 65...
... For NWS customers to apply NWS products and services effectively, the primary customers in the environmental information provider network and the ultimate consumers (organizations and individuals) must appreciate the role of the NWS in enabling and fostering the provider network.
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From page 66...
... This evolutionary upgrading will require the NWS to stay abreast of all possible new opportunities, while making decisions about which ones to pursue. As part of its task, the panel was asked to suggest criteria for setting priorities among proposed science and technology initiatives.
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Key Terms

  • national weather
  • environmental information
  • information services
  • field offices
  • weather information

  • environmental satellite
  • information service
  • provider network
  • national environmental
  • atmospheric research

  • climate data
  • computational power
  • user community
  • primary customers
  • improving forecasts

  • expanded provider
  • weather research
  • national centers
  • nws customers
  • supercomputing capability

  • weather phenomena
  • merging weather
  • provide timely
  • continuing education
  • enabling science

  • capital investment
  • space weather
  • formal nws
  • numerical weather
  • synergistic observing


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