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New and Stronger Collaboration
New and Stronger Collaboration
Pages 43-49
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: "Strengthening cooperation with the mass media, universities, the research community, and the private hydrometeorological sector to collectively fulfill the nation's weather information needs from provision of severe weather warnings and general forecasts for the public as a whole, which is a Government responsibility; to provision of detailed and customer specific weather information, which is a private sector responsibility." 43
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The Committee believes, therefore, that an important new component of the modernization of the NWS should be a strong commitment by NWS and NOAA to strengthen their research partnership with the academic community. Some components of NOAA have very effective cooperative institutes on university campuses, staffed by NOAA and academic personnel; however, the NWS has none.
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Recommendation: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Weather Service should implement enhanced collaboration with universities in the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences, in both education and research. PRIVATE SECTOR Mass Media The only federally operated facility that broadcasts forecasts and warnings directly to the public is the NOAA Weather Radio network.
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based on output from the NWS, usually collated and reformatted for clarity and convenience of use, and redistributing the resulting products to a variety of users ranging from large media organizations to individual subscribers; • compiling and reorganizing NWS data into tailored regional or local information products for the media; • utilizing NWS data to make specialized, highly detailed, or locally oriented forecasts for operational use by such entities as municipalities, utilities, industrial plants, agribusiness, marine and air transportation, and general aviation; • generating and maintaining a database of observations and analyses acquired in real time from the NWS, often correcting errors in content and format, to provide the data to consumers in a more utilitarian mode than may be available directly from NOAA; and • advising individuals or organizations, either to clarify weather information received from any source or to provide more depth, detail, or alternative 46
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The Committee is concerned that a significant increase in fees could put vital NWS weather information beyond the financial reach of the majority of private weather organizations, potentially resulting in a significant loss of quality, service, and economic utility to the ultimate user and the public at large. This may vitiate the policy that the private sector should be the primary means for disseminating official forecasts to the public and for providing all specialized weather services (many formerly provided by the government)
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Recommendation: To ensure that the association between the National Weather Service and the private sector functions smoothly and efficiently to the best advantage of all parties, including the general public, the constituent affairs activities of the National Weather Service should be strengthened; the Constituent Affairs Officer should act as an ombudsman for the private sector to the Assistant Administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration for Weather Services, coordinate program changes with the private sector, obtain its inputs to National Weather Service planning and evaluation, and arbitrate or resolve conflicts as they arise. The National Implementation Plan (DOC, 1990, page 43)
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Effective warning and preparedness require adequate planning, coordination, and education at the national, regional, and local levels. Recommendation: To ensure adequate community preparedness, professional staff time equivalent to a full-time person should be provided at each Weather Forecast Office to work with state and local governments and other involved agencies in preparing plans for the community's response to severe weather.
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