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Senator Wood from Nebraska, who in 1988 led a coalition of Midwest
states in a suit against Colorado following that state's attempts to
increase Colorado River flow by augmenting snowfall.
Audit and Monitoring
Closer NOAA administration scrutiny of budget and accounting
data is the result of efforts to streamline the budget. Budget
development relies extensively on decision support systems. The
emphasis on procurement of information systems for the budget office
has been to reduce manual data handling and improve fiscal analy-
tical tools. Information technologies have increased productivity
but, more importantly, have improved the capability of the budget
office to track budget data and performance on a fine scale.
Although budget models and data are maintained separately within NOAA
administrative offices, an informal "NOAA spreadsheet" is widely
used in the LOs to assess how possible changes in the NOAA budget will
affect their programs.
As yet unresolved is the broad issue of economic uses of NOAA
data. The well-publicized disruption of commodity futures markets
last year was attributed by many commentators to the use of NOAA
data and NOAA-developed weather and crop impact models. The responsi-
bilities of current and ex-NOAA employees, business interests, and
traders in this incident and in general are still undecided.
The increase in NOAA-wide data integration and the near-universal
access to minicomputers has increased concern about the reliability
of NOAA weather and environmental databases. Database quality assur-
ance has become a major role for NOAA administration. Through the
1980s the amount of observation data available increased faster
than the ability to sort.and verify information. NOAA last year
charged an internal task force with three program tasks: technical
quality assurance at the data gathering stage; sorting at the database.
update and correlation stage; and a retroactive system to assess the
quality of past data with the improved quasi-intelligent sorting
programs now available.
Legal issues still plague public and private forecasting services.
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Hitchcock, Henry H.; Heinz, Lisa & Coates, Joseph F. Scenarios of five federal agencies (1991-95) as shaped by information technology: a report to the Federal Government Information Technology Project, report, June 21, 1985; (https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc97418/m1/43/: accessed April 19, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, UNT Digital Library, https://digital.library.unt.edu; crediting UNT Libraries Government Documents Department.