The Federal plan for meteorological services and supporting research fiscal year 1973

This Federal Plan is the eighth in a series of annual plans developed by the Federal Coordinator for Meteorological Services and Supporting Research. This Plan focuses on the measures being taken to protect weather-sensitive activities. It is published to provide the Congress and the Executive Branch with a coordinated, overall plan for Government meteorological services and for those research and development programs whose immediate objective is to improve meteorological services. The Plan covers the programs of all agencies for FY 1972 and FY 1973. Much of the FY 1973 activity is aimed at strengthening the basic meteorological system through advanced satellites, utilizing larger capacity computers, providing better forecasting models of the ocean and atmosphere that will improve the prediction capability by the last half of this decade, and improving the preparedness of the public to respond to warnings.