Fair weather : effective partnerships in weather and climate services / Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services, Committee on Geophysical and Environmental Data, Board on Earth Sciences and Resources, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Computer Science and Telecommunications Board, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council of the National Academies.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meteorological services--United States.

Meteorological services.

Communication in meteorology--United States.

Communication in meteorology.

Weather forecasting--United States.

Weather forecasting.

Public-private sector cooperation--United States.

Public-private sector cooperation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Effective partnerships in weather and climate services

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academies Press, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather services "NOAA (primarily the National Weather Service NWS]), academic institutions, and private companies. This three-sector system has produced a scope and diversity of weather services in the United States second to none. However, rapid scientific and technological change is changing the capabilities of the sectors and creating occasional friction. Fair Weather: Effective Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services examines the roles of the three sectors in providing weather and climate services, the barriers to interaction among the sectors, and the impact of scientific and technological advances on the weather enterprise. Readers from all three sectors will be interested in the analysis and recommendations provided in Fair Weather .

Contents:

Intro

Acknowledgments

Preface

Contents

Executive Summary

1 Introduction

2 The U.S. Weather and Climate Enterprise

3 Public, Private, and Academic Partnerships

4 Legal, Social, Policy, and Economic Framework

5 Impact of Scientific and Technological Advances on Partnerships

6 Improving the Effectiveness of the Weather Enterprise

Appendix A Committee Charge

Appendix B Public-Private Provision of Weather and Climate Services: Defining the Policy Problem

Appendix C Major Systems Overview

Appendix D Private Sector Comments

Appendix E On Fairness and Self-Serving Biases in the Privatization of Environmental Data

Appendix F Biographical Sketches of Committee Members

Appendix G Acronyms.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786610180080

9780309168526

030916852X

9781280180088

1280180080

9780309506168

0309506166

OCLC:

52859231