What is NWS HQ doing to help improve performance scores?
NWS HQ works with the NWS Regional Offices to identify stations with faulty equipment (ground tracking system, balloons, etc) or other problems in the network and provide any needed assistance. As an example, the upper-air performance score program revealed that data communications between the upper-air station and NCEP needed improvement. Stations were disseminating upper-air data on time, but NCEP received the data late or not at all. To help solve this problem, NWS HQ asked NCEP to implement a new web page that notifies, in real-time, those upper-air stations that NCEP has or has not received data from. This way, notified stations can retransmit missing data.
