The Risks of Contracting the Acquisition and Processing of the Nation’s Weather and Climate Data to the Private Sector

We are deeply concerned with the trend toward the purchase of commercial weather and climate data by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and other government agencies that may follow. One major concern is for the stability of both the raw and processed forms of these datasets...

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Main Authors: Serra, Yolande L., Haase, Jennifer S., Adams, David K., Fu, Qiang, Ackerman, Thomas P., Alexander, M. Joan, Arellano, Avelino, Back, Larissa, Chen, Shu-Hua, Fuchs, Zeljka, Kuang, Zhiming, Mapes, Brian, Neelin, David, Raymond, David, Staten, Paul W., Subramanian, Aneesh, Thompson, David W. J., Vecchi, Gabriel, Wood, Robert, Zuidema, Paquita, Emanuel, Kerry Andrew, Sobel, Adam H., 1967-
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences
Format: Article
Published: American Meteorological Society 2018
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/119400
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2066-2082