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3 Evaluate Function and Structure
3 Evaluate Function and Structure
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In the future, the workforce will need In light of evolving technology, and because the an increased capability to interact with third-party work of the National Weather Service (NWS) has providers of weather information with the goal of major science and technology components, the NWS raising general weather awareness and improving the should evaluate its function and structure, seeking communication of specific weather threats.
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Little or no immediate cost would be involved. The NEXRAD radars are situated away from However, the Weather-Ready Nation Roadmap as major population centers to avoid such things as beam set forth by the NWS expects the local staff at each occultation by tall buildings and the copious urban office to expand their skill set, duties, and responsibiliradio frequency interference (RFI)
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weather" (NRC, 2012a) , any severe weather or flood threats require careful planning by local management Regionalization of Selected NWS Functions to ensure that there is enough staff to adequately issue life-saving advisories and warnings without compro- Under the recently proposed Weather-Ready Nation mising the issuance of the routine forecast products.
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Keeping in mind Lesson 4 from serves as a basis for nearly all weather forecasts accessed the Committee's first report, the NWS would need by the public over the NWS web pages. As part of the to engage the members of its workforce whose career forecast process, the meteorologists at the field offices would be affected by any change in the NWS structure use the AWIPS workstations to view a map of their and to consider the financial and social effects of relocaarea of responsibility with forecasted values derived tion on personnel.
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Poorly maintained precipitation and stream- ment, model data assimilation, uncertainty quantificaflow measurement stations, loss of stations, out-of-date tion, forecast interpretation, product development, and measurement technology, and poor or untimely com- forecast communication. In essence, time saved from munication of station data all serve to increase forecast laborious subjective data quality control and attribution uncertainty and consume valuable RFC hydrologist tasks needs to be reallocated to continual quantitative, labor time to either reject problem data or render such objective system assessment, forecast production, and observations useful.
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and in other secbroaden the scope of the system for evaluating tions of this report, it is evident that skill requirements its forecasts and warnings to include false alarms for NWS staff will accelerate in both breadth and that result in substantial public and/or emergency depth of subject matter. The type and volume of new management response as well as significant hydro foundational datasets to be created by the NWS of the meteorological, oceanographic, or geological events.
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rely upon, but still understand, automated and objectively created data and forecast products and their Basic educational degree requirements are neceserror estimates and will need to largely disengage from sary but insufficient for building a highly efficient and manual, rote subjective manipulation. The forecaster agile workforce that can meet the requirements put will increasingly work to integrate and interpret foun- forth in the Weather-Ready Nation Roadmap.
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, that the qualifications for hydrologist positions were mastery of the construction and use of new "Earth not updated to require degreed hydrologists. Nega- System Models," a current understanding of hydrologic tive consequences of this staffing challenge include data assimilation methodologies, or command of the limitations in the capability of RFCs to calibrate and preparation and interpretation of meaningful ensemble improve their hydrologic models, and delays in inte- predictions.
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servicefor teaching some topical fundamentals, or for some hydrologist staff requires re-education and continual basic cross-training activities for non-subject-matter re-training if NWS hydrologic prediction services are experts (e.g., teaching hydrology to degreed meteo- to be able to adopt current state-of-the-science prerologists) , or for teaching some new standards of diction methodologies and instill the evolutionary practice, the educational needs of service hydrologists culture required for optimal hydrologic services.
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