Weather Services for the Nation: Becoming Second to None

by Division on Earth and Life Studies, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Committee on the Assessment of the National Weather Service's Modernization Program, et al.

During the 1980s and 1990s, the National Weather Service (NWS) undertook a major program called the Modernization and Associated Restructuring (MAR). The MAR was officially completed in 2000. No comprehensive assessment of the execution of the MAR plan, or comparison of the promised benefits of the MAR to its actual impact, had ever been conducted. Therefore, Congress asked the National Academy of Sciences to conduct an end-to-end assessment. That...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 030925972X
• ISBN13: 9780309259729
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 86 Pages