Publication Date:
2004-12-03
Description:
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.
Keywords:
Meteorology and Climatology
Type:
1999 NCCS Highlights; 28-35
Format:
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