@article{5f246e3c79a44cf8ba1d5f845764882b,
title = "MESONETS: Mesoscale weather and climate observations for the United States",
author = "Rezaul Mahmood and Ryan Boyles and Kevin Brinson and Christopher Fiebrich and Stuart Foster and Ken Hubbard and David Robinson and Jeff Andresen and Dan Leathers",
note = "Funding Information: State and federal partnerships are also key elements of mesonets. In many cases, mesonets receive funding from state agencies in return for defined deliverables, normally relating to public safety and emergency response. Regionally, some mesonets share data with Regional Climate Centers funded by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. A number of mesonets have been providing data for various federal entities over many years; most often these exchanges are free of charge. However, there are cases where a federal partner provides limited funding for the data. Increasingly, mesonets are contributing near-real-time data and metadata through the federally supported National Mesonet Program (Dahlia 2013). These data support a variety of National Weather Service (NWS) activities tied to weather forecasting. Independent of this effort, many mesonets make data available directly to local NWS offices for their forecasting and alerting activities as a public service to local residents. Indeed, many local NWS offices are among the strongest partners of the mesonets.",
year = "2017",
month = jul,
doi = "10.1175/BAMS-D-15-00258.1",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "98",
pages = "1349--1361",
journal = "Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society",
issn = "0003-0007",
publisher = "American Meteorological Society",
number = "7",
}