Re:Supercomputer quietly puts U.S. weather resources back on...
by kuya on Monday February 22, 2016 @02:51PM
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you're probably already aware of this, but there is some US legislation trying to open up commercial data to gov't entities:
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/1561...
there's some stuff being written this year as well for the side that i work (space). with all the upcoming sensor gaps, they're looking at alternative ways to cover.
And yes it would be great to have all these sensor readings available to NOAA, Environment Canada, ECMWF, and everywhere. I have made lots of progress in getting them to talk about it, but it's a long road before any government starts using this data in its own NWP models.