A Climate Services Vision First Steps Toward the Future (2001) / Chapter Skim
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3 Guiding Principles for Climate Services
3 Guiding Principles for Climate Services
Pages 32-38
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reviewed the various climate service activities described in the previous chapters. Representatives of the various activities (the state climatologists' programs, the regional climate centers, the National Climatic Data Center, the Climate Prediction Center, private sector organizations, etc.)
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GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR CLIMATE SERVICES . A comprehensive service should strive to meet the needs of a user community at least as diverse and complex as the climate system itself, ranging from the international community to individual users and involving both the public and private sectors.
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on a variety of space and time scales, in the context of historical expenence, is required to serve national needs. The case studies in Chapter 1 describing the current demand for climate services illustrate the scope of the knowledge base that should be included to serve national needs.
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· The most successful climate observing systems have included synergism among observations, theory, and modeling. · Development and maintenance of a robust and easily accessible delivery system are necessary for an effective climate service.
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BASC reviewed the development of the partnership between the public and private sectors in the provision of weather services. The partnership was codified by the National Weather Service (NWS)
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· The role of the private sector is motivated by and acts under market forces and owes principal responsibilities to its own and its clients' interests. This defines substantially different premises: The private sector generates data and products to which it may retain a proprietary interest, even if the data are subsequently transferred to a public agency unless otherwise agreed upon.
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that also fulfill the research, education, and outreach mission of academe. BASC provides these principles for consideration in future climate service organizations, whether they are entirely new organizations or a refocusing or realigning of existing organizations.
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