Citation
(2006), "NOAA collaborates with Australian counterparts", Disaster Prevention and Management, Vol. 15 No. 4. https://doi.org/10.1108/dpm.2006.07315dab.008
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2006, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
NOAA collaborates with Australian counterparts
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has signed an agreement with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology to formalize their commitment to improving meteorological and hydrological forecasting. The five-year agreement is accompanied by an implementation strategy for Australia to adopt the digital forecast process developed by NOAA's National Weather Service. A second component to the agreement is the enhancement of international tsunami warning systems.
The technology exchange will help Australia and the USA support the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission's Indian Ocean Tsunami Warning System and accelerate Australia's capacity for planning, deploying, applying, and operationally supporting deep-ocean tsunami detection platforms, such as the US Deep-Ocean Assessment and Reporting Tsunamis buoy stations. Additional cooperation will occur in the areas of warning system design and exchange of sea-level data related to these warning systems. Read the press release at: www.publicaffairs.noaa.gov/releases2006/mar06/noaa06-031.html
(Extracted from Natural Hazards Observer, March, 2006 and May 2006).