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Appendix C: Recommendations from the Report of the Space Shuttle Weather Forecasting Advisory Panel
Appendix C: Recommendations from the Report of the Space Shuttle Weather Forecasting Advisory Panel
Pages 59-61
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration should establish a Weather Support Office at the top level of Shuttle operations to plan, organize, focus, and direct the activities related to Space Shuttle weather support. The head of this office should be a senior atmospheric scientist or a senior technical manager with a strong operations background, who IS knowledgeable about operational weather forecasting and research and development and who commands respect in the meteorological and NASA communities.
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Because the panel was unable to obtain access to the relevant computer algorithms, it is not possible to comment here concerning the adequate accuracy and resolution of these profilers for wind Toad assessments. A thorough study of methods and modem for shortrange wind forecasting should be undertaken with these and other technological advances under consideration, in view of the rapid wind profile changes under way preceding the Challenger launch.
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10. A thorough study should be made of the available subsynoptic and mesosc ale models to provide guidance to the Shuttle forecast team.
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