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INTERNET-BASED PILOT REPORTS ALLOW NOAA TO IMPROVE
AVIATION FORECASTS AND SAFETY
Airline dispatchers and the NOAA National Weather Service
have worked together over the past year to enhance the collection
of critical weather data that will help improve air travel
safety through more accurate forecasting. The NOAA Weather
Service's Aviation Weather Center in Kansas City, Mo., led
the charge with a simple change: allow airline dispatchers
to file their pilot reports (colloquially called PIREPs) through
the Internet for relay into the FAA's weather information
system. "Timely, accurate and focused environmental information
for pilots will help assure safety for the aviation industry,"
said retired Brig. Gen. David L. Johnson, director of the
NOAA National Weather Service and former U.S. Air Force pilot.
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NEW
NOAA WEB SITE KEEPS AN EYE ON THE ARCTIC —
A new NOAA Web site shows the past and present state of the
Arctic climate and ecosystem at a glance. The Web site provides
information about the ice, land, climate, marine ecosystem and
human effects all with a historical context as well as current
data. The Arctic is described on the Web site as a “vast,
ice-covered ocean that is surrounded by treeless, frozen land,
which is often covered with snow and ice” but that “teems
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CLIMATE REFERENCE NETWORK PROVES VALUABLE WITHIN ONE YEAR OF
OPERATION — After nearly a year of full-scale
operation, the U.S. Climate Reference Network is already helping
to improve the tracking of temperature and precipitation trends,
giving NOAA scientists and the nation's decision makers more
insight into climate variability and change. NOAA's top official
said the CRN is poised to be a key tool on the world stage.
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NOAA
ISSUES UPDATE TO 2004-05 WINTER OUTLOOK; December, January,
February Climate Outlook
— With winter approaching, NOAA issued its final U.S.
winter outlook for December 2004 through February 2005. NOAA
forecasters predict an enhanced likelihood of cooler-than-average
temperatures in much of the East, Middle Atlantic and South;
warmer-than-average temperatures in Alaska, Hawaii and the West;
wetter-than-average conditions from New Mexico through Texas
to Louisiana; and drier-than-average conditions over the Ohio
Valley and the Northwest for this winter. |
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