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1993 Review of the World Center-A for Meteorology and the National Climatic Data Center (1994) / Chapter Skim
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Impact of National Weather Service Modernization
Pages 7-8

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... radars, rivals in volume the entire existing historical holdings from the traditional data sources. Apprehensive about discarding detailed data that may later prove valuable, and also mindful of the data retention recommendations of various advisory groups, the center struggles to cope with this flood of new information.
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... . The problems faced in archiving, retrieving, and disseminating the data from an observing system such as NEXRAD receive minimal consideration and resources from the NOAA operating element fielding the system during its design phase.
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