User Needs for Weather and Climate Information: 2019 NCEI Users’ Conference Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society

NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) is committed to developing and producing use-inspired environmental information products that serve every sector of the U.S. economy and support planning and various types of decision-making. NCEI routinely engages with users at hosted events and sectoral conferences to understand and incorporate user needs and requirements into NCEI’s suite of products and services, freely available to the public. User perspectives guide NCEI’s science, research, and product innovation. Requirements derived from user interactions are key to the management and advancement of NCEI’s product suite and often extends into services capabilities, including access and stewardship.