Community Weather Involvement Program (CWIP): A Link between the National WeatherService and the Community

摘要

Several initiatives were developed at NWSO Springfield, Missouri (SGF) to enhanceour hazardous and severe weather programs and to optimize data form the WSR-88D and othe remote equipment sites. The most cost effective way was to expand our real-time ground truth network by supplementing the already established data source networks with people and businesses from the community who are interested in weather.