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ORGANIZATION OF WEATHER SUPPORT SERVICES
Pages 20-26

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... , the National Weather Service/ National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NWS/NOAA) , and the United States Army Atmospheric Sciences Laboratory (White Sands, New Mexico)
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... Although the WSO is shown within the manned space flight chain of command in Figure 3, it is important that all other segments of the Office of Space Flight coordinate their requirements for meteorological support through the WSO. To facilitate the organizational procedure, everyone involved in meteorological support for space flight must recognize that the Weather Support Office has responsibility for directing, coordinating, and supervising the operational and applied research activities hi support of both manned and unmanned space flight.
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From page 22...
... WEATHER OBSERVATIONS The space vehicle launch and landing sites within the United States are shown in Table 1. There are numerous additional landing sites overseas for manned vehicles.
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... For example, there is a lack of quality control: the one electric field mill site the panel was shown at KSC could not work properly because the sensor was mounted improperly and was too close to an electrical outlet and a rope fence. For another example, an aircraft is flown prior to each shuttle launch with minimal instrumentation; yet this same aircraft could be instrumented to make measurements of the electric fields in various types of clouds.
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... WEATHER ANALYSIS AND FORECASTING At KSC, weather analysis and forecasting for daily ground operations, launches, and air-sea rescue efforts are the responsibilities of the Air Weather Service, 4th Weather Wing, 2nd Weather Squadron, Detachment 11, Patrick Air Force Base, and Cape Canaveral Forecast Facility. An exception is that Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC)
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... APPLIED RESEARCH The AWS and NWS forecast offices at KSC and JSC are operational units, not charged with research missions. Present staffing does not allow them to undertake applied research programs, aside from limited forecast studies and software development.
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... The Weather Support Office should be staffed with atmospheric scientists who are capable of evaluating applied research activities, stimulating new applied research efforts needed to meet nnaddressed needs of the space program, and coordinating these efforts.
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