1 Observation Expertise and Perspectives Panel AMS Summer Meeting August 11, 2009 Ken Reeves Director, Forecasting Operations AccuWeather, Inc

2 Government Role is Key There is diversity Major source of resource Size and redundancy Gate Keeper

3 America’s Weather and Climate Industry Huge consumer of data –A smaller provider as well but with several IP issues Usually interested in only a piece of the pie Needs vary with lines of business and business models –Prompted some to create their own

4 Maximum Benefit Produced Full access to as much data as currently collected Plans for future data to follow same path Metadata (usage and quality) A level of cleanliness Real-time, reliable access