Program Users

NPOESS brings together satellite operations, modern communication, integrated modeling, and advances in computers to serve a wide spectrum of users. Its mission is intended to provide a continuing improvement in the accuracy of weather and climate forecasts and is planned to meet civilian and US military needs for many years to come. NPOESS delivers products to a variety of users. National and international weather, climate, hydrological, and space weather analysis and prediction centers serve the needs of billions of people nationally and worldwide.

Education and training for the user community is coordinated by the University of Colorado's University Corporation for Atmospheric Research through the COMET program.

These centers include:

• NOAA National Weather Service
• Air Force Weather Agency
• Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center
• Naval Oceanographic Office
• Regional forecast centers
• NOAA Marine Prediction Center
• National Climatic Data Center
• NOAA Hydrometeorological Prediction Center
• Department of Defense theater and unit direct readout terminal users
• European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF)

NPOESS is involved with International services such as:

• Search and Rescue Satellite-Aided Tracking (SARSAT )
• ARGOS

Other individual and institutional users include:

• Industrial/information providers
• Private weather forecasters
• International researchers and research centers
• Educators (high schools, colleges, universities)