3 ms·
The National Weather Service is something we did really well. We give away free national weather data, ocean monitoring data, air monitoring data, doppler radar
by Aloisius 13y ago
The National Weather Service is something we did really well. We give away free national weather data, ocean monitoring data, air monitoring data, doppler radar, plus predictions for everything from floods to hurricanes. Their weather stations are everything from thousands of fixed stations to over a hundred weather balloons they fly daily to supplementary data from ships that have weather stations on board.
It really is an impressive variety of data.
- dfc 13y agoDon't forget to mention Dial-A-Buoy.[1] There is also a neat whale+buoy project at NOAA but I forget the name. NOAA and NIST are something we do very well. [1] http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dial.shtml http://www.ndbc.noaa.gov/dial.shtml
- joezydeco 13y agoAnd, don't forget all the shortwave radio stations that have constantly been broadcasting forecasts and alerts for decades. http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrrcvr.htm http://www.nws.noaa.gov/nwr/nwrrcvr.htm And let's not forget NIST... http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/grp40/wwv.cfm