Fair Weather Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services

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 Servicesexamines 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.National Research Council (U.S.), Committee on Partnerships in Weather and Climate Services Staff is the author of 'Fair Weather Effective Partnership in Weather and Climate Services' with ISBN 9780309087469 and ISBN 0309087465.