Background Readings

• Testimony of the Commercial Weather Services Association, by Michael S. Leavitt

• Statement by Dr. Joel Myers on Behalf of AccuWeather, Inc.

• Visions of Future Weather Services speech, by Dr. Joel Myers

• John Kelly letter to aviation community

• Internet Services Resource Management: Service acquisition, security, address and name services

• NWS Policy and Guidelines on Server Content for Internet Use

• WMO Resolution 40 Cover Letter

• Transfer of NWS Agricultural Weather Services and Non-Federal Non-Wildfire Weather Services to the Private Meteorological Sector

• Policy Statement on the Weather Service/Private Sector Roles

• Policy and Guidelines Governing National Weather Service and Private Sector Roles

• Letter to NWS Agricultural Weather Users

• Agriculture, Fire Weather Service and Marine Radiofax Privatization Questions and Answers

• Locally Generated Agricultural Forecasting Aids

• Six Heretical Notions about Weather Policy, by Roger A. Pielke, Jr.

• The Future of the "Public-Private Parthership": Toward a More Synergistic Relationship in the 21st Century, by Michael R. Smith, WeatherData, Inc.

• The Kept University, Part I, by Eyal Press and Jennifer Washburn

• A Smile Makes a Lousy Umbrella, by Matt Villano

• Marriage of Convenience, by Spyros Andreopoulous, Stanford Medicine, Summer 1995.

• Cracking the Genetic Code: Competition was the Catalyst, by Gary S. Becker, Business Week, August 14, 2000.

• Weather Service's Critics Forecast Hazy Future, by David Flick, Dallas Morning News, April 1, 2000.

• Scientists Toil for Love, Not Money, by Guy Gugliotta, Washington Post National Weekly Edition, July 17, 2000.

• Japan's Weather Mogul to Storm U.S., by Rogert A. Guth, Wall Street Journal, October 30, 2000.

• Academic Research Under the Microscope, by Robert O'Harrow, Jr., Washington Post National Weekly Edition, August 21, 2000.

• Weather Wise, by Stephan Herrera, Forbes Magazine, June 14, 1999.

• Forecasting Profits/Company to Mine Silver Linings, by Chip Minty, The Daily Oklahoman, April 2000.

• When Bad Weather is Good Business, by Neela Banerjee.

• National Weather Service: Guidelines for Support of Special Events, by John J. Kelly, Jr.

• Do We Need the National Weather Service?, by Jeffrey Rosenfeld, Scientific American, spring 2000.

• Weathering the Storm, by Michael R. Smith, FMJ Magazine, March/April 2000.

• The Role of Government in a Digital Age (link to Executive Summary), by J. Stiglitz, P. Orszag, and J. Orszag, Computer and Communications Industry Association, October 2000.

• Airlines, FAA Agree to Agree on Weather, by Matthew L. Wald, New York Times, April 9, 2000.

• Airport Delays Give Passengers Time to Fume, by Laurence Zuckerman, New York Times, July 16, 2000.

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