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2 CORL.pdf - Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology - NOAA

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LFW Program Mission<br />

• Critical operations focused on protecting lives/property<br />

• Delivered essential <strong>NOAA</strong> services, especially those related<br />

to high‐impact events, to local communities through its<br />

distributed structure <strong>of</strong> field <strong>of</strong>fices and national centers.<br />

• Functional components included elements <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> end‐toend<br />

<strong>for</strong>ecast and warning process:<br />

• Observe <strong>the</strong> atmosphere<br />

• Produce numerical <strong>for</strong>ecast guidance<br />

• Syn<strong>the</strong>size environmental in<strong>for</strong>mation<br />

• Make <strong>for</strong>ecast and warning decisions<br />

• Provide in<strong>for</strong>mation and decision assistance<br />

PREDECISIONAL<br />

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