NOAA's
Local Forecasts and Warnings Program puts "NOAA in your neighborhood" by
delivering essential services to local communities through
its distributed structure of 122 Weather Forecast Offices
(WFOs), 19 Weather Service Offices (WSOs), and 2 data collection
offices (DCOs). LFW comprises the end-to-end forecast process
by observing the atmosphere, assimulating observations into
numerical models, turning model data into national environmental
information, providing local warning and forecast services
to affected communities, delivering services to local and
national customers through complimentary dissemination techologies,
educating customers on how to best use NOAA's services, assessing
service performance, turning requirements into new services,
and training personnel to reach maximum effectiveness. The
end-to-end forecast process and decentralized structure puts
NOAA close to its customers and provides essential environmental
services that "touch every American every day."
For
More information on this program, Contact Dennis McCarthy at 301-713-0700
