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The Meteorological Buoy and Coastal Marine Automated Network for the United States (1998) / Chapter Skim
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6 Concluding Perspective
Pages 64-66

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... that can lead to dooding, near-shore high-wind zones associated with landfalling hurricanes or wind channeling by coastal orographic barriers, and coastal storm surges associated with winter storms and landfalling hurricanes. The detection of mesoscale weather systems, typically occurring on horizontal scales of 50-100 km over a period of a few hours, is predicated on the ability of forecasters to monitor the weather on finer time and space scales than they have ever done.
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From page 65...
... However, there are opportunities with new industry- and university laboratory-developed technology, including instrument packages, buoys, and data delivery systems that could cut costs, improve observational capacity and quality, and thus further NOAA's ability to make improved weather forecasts. The extent to which NDBC can take advantage of these new opportunities would improve the tractability and viability of the modified MAROB plan that is proposed for adoption.
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... of experts drawn from NOAA operational units, other agency and private sector user groups, and the academic research community. An annual or biennial status report on the network could be published by the panel for general dissemination.
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