Meteorologists author article describing changes within the US National Weather Service to evolve.
The October issue of BAMS - The Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society - features an article authored by Louis Uccellini and John Ten Hoeve of the National Weather Service about how the agency is evolving to meet America’s growing and changing needs for weather information and forecasts.
Evolving the National Weather Service to Build a Weather-Ready Nation; Connecting Observations, Forecasts, and Warnings to Decision-Makers through Impact-Based Decision Support Services delves into the rapidly shifting weather forecast and support demands of the nation, and how transformational change is positioning the National Weather Service for success in this new environment.
As described in the article, America experiences some of the world’s most extreme and diverse weather. Four out of five Americans live in counties that have received weather-related disaster declarations. To achieve the vision of a Weather-Ready Nation and to meet the NWS mission of saving lives and property and enhancing the national economy, the agency must improve the accuracy and timeliness of forecasts and warnings, and must directly connect these forecasts and warnings to critical life- and property-saving decisions through the provision of impact-based decision support services (IDSS). This focus helps officials at federal, state, local, tribal, and territorial levels of government make faster and more pertinent decisions to protect life and property. These organizational shifts are aligned with direction provided by the 2017 Weather Research and Forecasting Innovation Act.
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