Provide advice and consultant service on climatological data to the Administrator, NOAA offices, and to other government agencies. Detect and correct errors in domestic surface and upper-air observations. Certify weather records received from observing stations. The field portion of the climatology program is carried out by agreement with the NWS stations, which are supervised by the six NWS regional headquarters. It maintains an awareness of current climate anomalies and provides information on these anomalies and their projected changes to users within and external to the government who are responsible for coping with problems caused by short-term climate fluctuations.
Areas affected by such problems are energy, food supply, water resources, and health.
The CAC supports research studies in climate diagnosis and prediction at universities, private research organizations, and other government agencies. Responsibility of National Weather Service Offices . Prepare a monthly Preliminary LCD on WS Form F-6, distributing copies as required. Climatological Stations . A climatological station is one from which climatological observations are obtained.