>In most nations, numerical weather prediction is the responsibility of one group. In the U.S., governmental global weather prediction is spread over FIVE efforts:
>NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (the leading U.S. effort)
>The US Navy
>The US Air Force
>NASA
>U.S. Department of Energy
This doesn't make sense. Other nations don't have a NASA, and if they do have a space agency that space agency is almost certainly in the weather business.
They also don't have expeditionary militaries like the USAF and USN, which need weather for the middle of the ocean or remote nation, far from NOAA's ability to deploy weather balloons.
And as far as I can tell, the only exposure to weather that the DOE has is for climate change reasons, and their interest in that should be obvious.
There's no waste. NOAA does the US, DOD does DOD, NASA helps out, and the DOE is looking at how climate change will impact the US's energy security.
So reason number 1 is horseshit, and I stopped reading.
>NOAA, the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (the leading U.S. effort)
>The US Navy
>The US Air Force
>NASA
>U.S. Department of Energy
This doesn't make sense. Other nations don't have a NASA, and if they do have a space agency that space agency is almost certainly in the weather business.
JAXA: https://earth.jaxa.jp/en/data/2547/index.html
They also don't have expeditionary militaries like the USAF and USN, which need weather for the middle of the ocean or remote nation, far from NOAA's ability to deploy weather balloons.
And as far as I can tell, the only exposure to weather that the DOE has is for climate change reasons, and their interest in that should be obvious.
There's no waste. NOAA does the US, DOD does DOD, NASA helps out, and the DOE is looking at how climate change will impact the US's energy security.
So reason number 1 is horseshit, and I stopped reading.