Article about the Reauthorizing the Weather Act hearingPartnerships and Improved Data May Bolster U.S. Weather Predictions.
An article by By Kirsten Errick, Staff Reporter, Nextgov, at this link.
https://www.nextgov.com/analytics-data/2023/03/partnerships-and-improved-data-may-bolster-us-weather-predictions/384546/ MARCH 28, 2023 04:59 PM ET
"Weather experts at a Congressional hearing for the reauthorization of the Weather Act noted that collaborating to collect more data and improve its assimilation will help improve weather predictions."
Two of Meredith Bell's (atmospheric program manager at FLYHT) comments...
"Bell stated how FLYHT partners with airline companies to add sensors to their airplanes and then send that data over to NOAA. She added that turbulence forecasting is also something that the private sector could help with."
"“There’s definitely a collaboration between NOAA and the private sector,” Bell said. “There needs to be more funding for that collaboration because, as much as we do need data assimilation, there are definitely data sparse regions out there that we need to look at. I have talked to NOAA meteorologists and they do have a desire to have more data than they currently have. And I’ve even talked to forecasters in various offices that have expressed the needs of having more real-time data.”"
Representatives on the committee seem to be supportive of both the funding and the broader concepts, like private sector partnerships.
(I am having a good deal of difficulty following the posts with Stockhouse's new format. I don't know where this will show up.)