When weather matters
Subtitle: science and services to meet critical societal needs
By: Committee on Progress and Priorities of U.S. Weather Research and Research-to-Operations Activities, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies, National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9780309152495
Subjects: Forecasting; Numerical weather forecasting; Social aspects; Meteorology; Research; Natural disasters; Congresses; Weather forecasting
Description: "The past 15 years have seen marked progress in observing, understanding, and predicting weather. At the same time, the United States has failed to match or surpass progress in operational numerical weather prediction achieved by other nations and failed to realize its prediction potential; as a result, the nation is not mitigating weather impacts to the extent possible. This book represents a sense of the weather community as guided by the discussions of a Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate community workshop held in summer 2009. The book puts forth the committee's judgment on the most pressing high level, weather-focused research challenges and research to operations needs, and makes corresponding recommendations. The book addresses issues including observations, global non-hydrostatic coupled modeling, data assimilation, probabilistic forecasting, and quantitative precipitation and hydrologic forecasting. The book also identifies three important, emerging issues--predictions of very high impact weather, urban meteorology, and renewable energy development--not recognized or emphasized in previous studies. Cutting across all of these challenges is a set of socioeconomic issues, whose importance and emphasis--while increasing--has been undervalued and underemphasized in the past and warrants greater recognition and priority today."--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 139-149).

Also available online in Open Book format via the National Academies Press home page.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Socioeconomic research and capacity; title: Established weather research and transitional needs; title: Emerging weather research and transitional needs; title: Conclusion.