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Author Obser, Committee on Opportunities to Improve Marine

Title Opportunities to Improve Marine Forecasting
Published Washington : National Academies Press, 1900

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Description 1 online resource (120 pages)
Contents ""Opportunities to Improve Marine Forecasting""; ""Copyright""; ""Abstract""; ""Preface""; ""Contents""; ""Executive Summary""; ""FINDINGS""; ""RECOMMENDATIONS""; ""1 The Marine Observing and Forecasting System ""; ""OBSERVING SYSTEMS""; ""DATA COLLECTION""; ""GLOBAL WEATHER AND OCEAN PREDICTION""; ""NOAA's Center for Ocean Analysis and Prediction""; ""TAILORED MARINE FORECASTING""; ""U.S. Government Forecasts""; ""Private Sector Forecasting""; ""PRODUCT DISSEMINATION""; ""DATA ARCHIVAL AND RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT""; ""2 Users of Marine Forecasts ""; ""RESPONSES TO COMMITTEE SURVEY""
""Question 1:Â Â Are You Using Marine Forecasting Services?""""Question 2:Â Â What Services Beyond Those Presently Available Would You Find Useful?""; ""Shipping""; ""Oil and Gas""; ""Fisheries and Recreation""; ""Question 3:Â Â Do You Supply Observations of Marine Weather and/or Ocean Conditions to Any Organization?""; ""Question 4:Â Â Which of These Forecasted Parameters Affect Your Decisions in Marine Operations?""; ""Question 5:Â Â Can You Quantify the Benefits that Would Accrue to Your Segment of the Marine Industry ... ""
""Question 6:Â Â Can You Describe and Quantify Losses that Have Occurred in Your Segment of the Marine I ... """"WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION""; ""RECONCILIATION OF QUESTIONAIRE AND WORKSHOP RESULTS""; ""Question 1:Â Â Reconciliation""; ""Question 2:Â Â Reconciliation""; ""Question 3:Â Â Reconciliation""; ""Question 4:Â Â Reconciliation""; ""Questions 5 and 6:Â Â Reconciliation""; ""ECONOMIC PERSPECTIVE""; ""EXPECTED BENEFITS OF FORECASTING IMPROVEMENTS""; ""3 Findings and Recommendations ""; ""FINDING 1:Â Â IMPROVED COORDINATION IS NEEDED""; ""Marine Data Collection""
""Data Assimilation and Modeling""""Product Dissemination""; ""Private Sector Forecasts""; ""FINDING 2:Â Â HURRICANE FORECASTING IS ADEQUATE AND SOURCES OF DATA AND FORECASTING TECHNIQUES SHOULD ... ""; ""FINDING 3:Â Â MORE SYNOPTIC DATA ARE NEEDED""; ""Operational Oceanographic Satellite""; ""Lost Data Opportunities""; ""FINDING 4:Â Â IMPROVEMENTS ARE NEEDED IN RESOLUTION IN SPACE AND TIME AND FORECAST HORIZON""; ""Shipping""; ""Oil and Gas Exploration and Production""; ""Fishing and Recreational Boating""; ""Dredging and Ocean Engineering""
""FINDING 5:Â Â IMPROVED DISSEMINATION SYSTEMS AND LINKAGE TO NAVY MARINE FACSIMILE BROADCAST ARE NEEDED""""NOAA Weather Radio""; ""The NAVTEX System""; ""Marine Facsimile and Radio Teletype""; ""FINDING 6:Â Â THE NEED FOR NEW SYSTEMS FOR FORECASTING INTERNAL OCEAN WEATHER EXISTS""; ""FINDING 7:Â Â EFFORTS ARE NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND AND OPERATIONALLY FORECAST EPISODIC WAVES AND EXPLOSIVE ... ""; ""Episodic Waves""; ""Explosive Cyclogenesis""; ""Appendix A Biographies of Committee Members ""; ""Appendix B Questionnaire and Responses ""; ""Appendix C Workshop Participants ""
Notes ""Committee members""
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Subject Marine meteorology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Weather forecasting -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Marine meteorology
Weather forecasting
Genre/Form Handbooks and manuals
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780309571708
0309571707