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2 Transition from Research to Operations in Weather Satellites and Numerical Weather Prediction
2 Transition from Research to Operations in Weather Satellites and Numerical Weather Prediction
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. The utility of this information is diverse it impacts military operations and staging; commercial airline scheduling, operations and flight planning; space launch scheduling; agriculture crop selection, planting, cultivation, and harvest timing; water resource management; and a wide range of commercial industries that schedule outdoor activities (e.g., construction, transportation)
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To place the report's subsequent discussion of numerical weather prediction and satellite technology into a broader context, this chapter discusses the relation of research and operations in the meteorological community. The operational forecast system is responsible for collecting and assembling data and for using that data, in conjunction with models, to produce forecast products in a timely fashion.
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If the research community produces new science, one would expect opportunities to improve operations to exist. But without effective transitions from research or a dialogue between research and operations about system performance, improvements to the skill of the operational forecast system will be slow.
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To that end, the research community should be involved as advisors, and sufficient resources should remain available for continued exploration. Not only should the operational structure include sufficient commitment to maintain critical observations, modeling, prediction, and information dissemination, but it should also include a continued interaction with the research community to promote the opportunities to maintain a state-of-the art capability6.
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efforts, the following two chapters apply the principles contained in these guidelines to two critical aspects of the U.S. weather and climate forecasting enterprise.
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