1 Front Matter; 2 Executive Summary; 3 1 Overview; 4 2 Operation and
Management; 5 3 Cooperative Network of the Future; 6 4 Review of the National
Weather Service Proposal; 7 References; 8 Acronyms; 9 Appendices; 10 A Survey
of State Climatologies on the NWS Cooperative Network; 11 B Applications/Uses
of Weather and Climate Data; 12 C Cooperative Observer Systems in Other
Countries; 13 D Summary of the Canadian Network Rationalization Plan; 14 E
Recommendations from the NWS Modernization Committee's 1992 Report; 15 F
Guidelines and Principles for Climate Monitoring; 16 G NWS Plan for
Modernizing the Cooperative Observer Network and Technical Specifications
