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National Weather Service (NWS)
Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Services
The Office of Climate, Water, and Weather Service (OCWWS) “provides NWS liaison with service partners, defines and validates national requirements for ongoing scientific and technical advancements and for effective new technologies to derive and disseminate critical hydrometeorological and climate information to users. It also ensures the ongoing professional development and continuing education of the NWS staff. In detail, the OS:
- conducts customer and partner outreach
- validates and states service requirements
- develops, coordinates, and issues national service and operations policy
- works through NWS integrated work teams to develop long-term service improvement strategies and proposals
- develops, implements and oversees service delivery performance measures
- evaluates operational service efficiency, effectiveness, and customer satisfaction
- develops NWS policy delineating NWS' mission and its public sector responsibility to produce and disseminate information and the resulting public-private sector roles”
OCWWS Product Listing
OCWWS Homepage
Climate Services Division of NWS
“The Climate Services Division at NWS headquarters provides the strategic vision for climate services at NWS and oversees the NWS climate prediction program. It develops policy and requirements for climate prediction products and other services related to the period of week two out to one year, including seasonal forecasts and threats assessments.”
Climate Service Division Product Listing
Climate Services Division Homepage
The Climate Prediction Center (CPC)
The Climate Prediction Center serves "the public by assessing and forecasting the impacts of short-term climate variability, emphasizing enhanced risks of weather-related extreme events, for use in mitigating losses and maximizing economic gains.”
“CPC’s products are operational predictions of climate variability, real-time monitoring of climate and the required data bases, and assessments of the origins of major climate anomalies. The products cover time scales from a week to seasons, extending into the future as far as technically feasible, and cover the land, the ocean, and the atmosphere, extending into the stratosphere.
These climate services are available for users in government, the public and private industry, both in this country and abroad. Applications include the mitigation of weather related natural disasters and uses for social and economic good in agriculture, energy, transportation, water resources, and health. Continual product improvements are supported through diagnostic research, increasing use of models, and interactions with user groups.”
Climate Prediction Center Product Listing
Climate Prediction Center Homepage
NWS Forecast Offices
"The NWS Forecast Offices have four basic functions:
- Continuous hydrometeorological data assimilation, modeling, analysis
and forecast preparation. - Coordinations with adjacent forecast offices and national centers to
provide seamless and credible products. - Technical support and interaction with other agencies and users involved
in the protection of life and property. - Applied research, development and technological implementation
to facilitate and support the above functions."
NWS Forecast Offices Product Listing
NWS Forecast Office Homepage
NWS Family of Services