Some 250,000 weather reports are collected by the National Weather Service (NWS) every day. Important measurements are taken by satellites, weather balloons, ground weather stations, airplanes, oceangoing ships, and tethered ocean buoys. Local or global weather models rely on these reports to provide the raw data used as initial conditions for the models to produce a weather prediction.


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    Title :

    North American Observing Systems: An Interagency Group Runs Tests at the NCCS



    Publication date :

    2002-07-01


    Type of media :

    Miscellaneous


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English