A systematic economic approach to evaluating public investment in observations for weather forecasting

Monthly Weather Review

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 374-388

  Morss, Rebecca E ^a   Miller, Kathleen A ^a   Vasil, Maxine S ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; INVESTMENTS; METEOROLOGY;

ECONOMIC EVALUATION; SYSTEMATIC ECONOMIC APPROACH;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

INVESTMENT; NUMERICAL METHOD; PUBLIC SPENDING; RADIOSONDE; WEATHER FORECASTING;

EID: 14644405649     PISSN: 00270644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/MWR-2857.1     Document Type: Review

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