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Societal needs for new and improved products in such areas as water resources, air quality, and space weather are increasing. Improvements to forecast models and products will provide more accurate and timely forecasts, which can then be used by decision makers to better protect life and property, expand opportunities to stimulate economic activity, enhance national competitiveness, and improve environmental management.
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It provided documentation for various personnel, budget, and operational issues associated with the National Centers for Environmental Prediction and served as good background information for the summer study. The report is available from the Director, National Weather Service, and is also a part of the Public Access File maintained by the National Research Council for all reports.
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weather services to maximize the benefits from the nation's investment in weather and climate forecasting research. While the overall atmospheric and oceanic research community in the United States is strong and florins the basis for expanding the quality a and diversity of services provided to the nation, there is no concerted effort to address the societal benefits and economic impacts of various research and operational strategies.
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BASC also recognizes that programs such as NPOESS, as currently planned, are not solutions to all climate and weather observational needs. Many of the research to forecast product transition issues discussed In this report in the context of weather and climate wild also be encountered as NOAA and other organizations clefine and produce forecasts of air quality, water quantity and quality, ultraviolet radiation, space weather, and other environmental properties.
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. This will eliminate the planning uncertainties and other negative impacts of soft money for an operational organization.
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As we enter the twenty-first century, it will be impossible to meet tomorrow's needs with yesterday's technology. An annual budget, designed around life cycle costs should enable forecasting system capabilities to be in place to meet the evolving needs of the nation for weather and climate forecasts.
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approach enables rapid assimilation of new research results. NSF, NOAA, Navy, and NASA funded research and research communities that have little to do with the USWRP can be key players and partners with EMC.
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8 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY KEY RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITE PROGRAMS A robust program of technology development, exploratory sensor development, and research missions ensures a continuous push toward improved capability in environmental remote sensing to improve weather and climate forecasting. The objective is to develop a feedback and advanced planning component of the NPOESS process that ensures a more rapid transition of new observations to operational use.
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This will facilitate the data assimilation process and therefore accelerate the use of disparate and complex data into operational weather forecasting.
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This study should also take into account the research provided by other agencies, most notably NSF and NASA. Such agencies should also
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EXECUTI HE SUMMARY 11 help in providing prototype capabilities to transform their research into the applications for which they were intended. Study of the balance between research and operations should occur continuously, or imbalances will quickly re-establish themselves.
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