Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309061466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
Future of the National Weather Service Cooperative Observer Network
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309061466
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 77
Book Description
NOAA's FY 2002 Budget
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Environment, Technology, and StandardsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 532
Book Description
A Vision for the National Weather Service
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309063795
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 89
Book Description
In this study, the committee explores ways the National Weather Service (NWS) can take advantage of continuing advances in science and technology to meet the challenges of the future. The predictions are focused on the target year 2025. Because specific predictions about the state of science and technology or the NWS more than 25 years in the future will not be entirely accurate, the goal of this report is to identify and highlight trends that are most likely to influence change. The Panel on the Road Map for the Future National Weather Service developed an optimistic vision for 2025 based on advances in science and technology.
Fair Weather
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309087465
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 239
Book Description
Decades of evolving U.S. policy have led to three sectors providing weather servicesâ€"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.
The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309217989
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 120
Book Description
The Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR) of the National Weather Service (NWS) was a large and complex re-engineering of a federal agency. The process lasted a decade and cost an estimated $4.5 billion. The result was greater integration of science into weather service activities and improved outreach and coordination with users of weather information. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The MAR was both necessary and generally well executed. However, it required revolutionary, often difficult, changes. The procurement of large, complex technical systems presented challenges in and of itself. The MAR also affected the career paths and personal lives of a large portion of the field office workforce. The MAR created a new, modernized NWS, and, significantly, it created a framework that will allow the NWS to keep up with technological changes in a more evolutionary manner. The National Weather Service Modernization and Associated Restructuring presents the first comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR and its impact on the provision of weather services in the United States. This report provides an assessment that addresses the past modernization as well as lessons learned to support future improvements to NWS capabilities.
Fiscal Year 2000 Budget Authorization Request
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science. Subcommittee on Energy and EnvironmentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1168
Book Description
Review of the Draft Plan for the Modernization and Associated Restructuring Demonstration
Author: National Weather Service Modernization CommitteePublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309518768
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
The public law that authorized the National Weather Service (NWS) to modernize its technical systems and restructure its field office organization set the requirements for what has become known as the modernization and associated restructuring demonstration (MARD). The law requires testing of the integrated performance, over a sustained period, of the modernized components and an operational demonstration that no degradation in service will result from the modernization and associated restructuring. In this report, the National Research Council's National Weather Service Modernization Committee reviews the September 1998 draft plan for MARD. The committee drew three conclusions from its review of the plan and offers five recommendations to the NWS.
Handbook of Weather, Climate, and Water
Author: Thomas D. PotterPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0471214906
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1030
Book Description
This comprehensive, two-volume review of the atmospheric and hydrologic sciences promises to be the definitive reference for both professionals and laypersons for years to come. Volume I addresses atmospheric dynamics, physical meteorology, weather systems, and measurements, while Volume II contains information on the climate system, atmospheric chemistry, hydrology, and societal impacts.
Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations for 2014
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Appropriations. Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related AgenciesPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Administrative agencies
Languages : en
Pages : 1588
Book Description
Improving American River Flood Frequency Analyses
Author: Committee on American River Flood FrequenciesPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309538939
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 133
Book Description
Sacramento, California, has grown literally at the edge of the Sacramento and American Rivers and for 150 years has struggled to protect itself from periodic floods by employing structural and land management measures. Much of the population lives behind levees, and most of the city's downtown business and government area is vulnerable to flooding. A major flood in 1986 served as impetus for efforts by federal, state, and local entities to identify an acceptable and feasible set of measures to increase Sacramento's level of safety from American River floods. Numerous options were identified in 1991 by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) in a report known as the American River Watershed Investigation. Due to the controversial nature of many of the alternatives identified in that report, study participants were not able to reach consensus on any of the flood control options. In response, the Congress directed the USACE to reevaluate available flood control options and, at the same time, asked the USACE to engage the National Research Council (NRC) as an independent advisor on these difficult studies. In 1995 NRC's Committee on Flood Control Alternatives in the American River Basin issued Flood Risk Management and the American River Basin: An Evaluation. This report outlined an approach for improving the selection of a flood risk reduction strategy from the many available.