National Weather Service
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| State level | National | ||
| Position of the authority | Operating unit | ||
| Supervisory authority (s) | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | ||
| Consist | since February 9, 1870 (as Weather Bureau , today's form 1970) | ||
| Headquarters | Silver Spring , Maryland | ||
| Authority management | Louis W. Uccellini , NOAA Assistant Administrator for Weather Services and Director, National Weather Service National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | ||
| Employee | approx. 5,000 | ||
| Website | www.nws.noaa.gov | ||
The National Weather Service ( NWS ; German Nationaler Wetterdienst ) is one of six scientific institutions that belong to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) of the United States of America. The NWS was formerly known as the Weather Bureau . Its responsibilities are to provide hydrological information, provide weather and climate forecasts, and issue warnings for the United States and its adjacent waters and oceans, for the protection of life and public property, and for the benefit of the national economy. This is done through a number of national and regional centers as well as 122 local weather forecast offices (WFOs). Because the NWS is a federal agency, most of its products have the copyright status of US government work (public domain).
structure
The National Weather Service of the United States is in turn divided into the National Centers for Environmental Forecasting .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ www.weather.gov NWS Biographies. Accessed September 25, 2014.
- ↑ [1]