The NOSC website will be retired on July 1, 2025. The notice of this change can be found on the Notice of Changes page on the NESDIS website. For NOAA staff, the password-protected materials from the NOSC website are available on the NOSC Internal Google Site. The public-facing documents which were previously available on the NOSC website, such as the EDMC's Procedural Directives, are now available on the NOAA Institutional Repository website. Please direct any questions to nosc.webmaster@noaa.gov.
- OSC Home
- OSC TOR
- Monthly OSC Meetings
- Emerging Tech Workshop
- OSC Membership List
- Contact us
- QOSAP
- Documents and Resources
- Request data & analysis (NOAA login)
- Observing System Visualization
- Baseline of NOAA's Observing Systems
- NOSIA-II Methodology Report
- Validated Observation Requirements
- Documents on GoogleDrive
- NOSC: NOAA Observing Systems Council
- NOAA DGC: Data Governance Committee
- SAE TPIO Google Site (NOAA login)
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The Observing Systems Committee (OSC) is a subcommittee of the NOAA Observing Systems Council (NOSC). The OSC shall propose the optimum observing systems configuration necessary to meet NOAA’s current and future missions. The NOSC has an obligation to NOAA leadership and the public to show a high return on investment in terms of service outcomes and societal benefits for the substantial resources committed.
Therefore, the OSC will provide (1) holistic, on-going assessment and analysis of the observing system portfolio and (2) specific recommendations to the NOSC for changes to the configuration of NOAA’s observing systems and overall portfolio to maximize the benefit to NOAA and its constituents.
Therefore, the OSC will provide (1) holistic, on-going assessment and analysis of the observing system portfolio and (2) specific recommendations to the NOSC for changes to the configuration of NOAA’s observing systems and overall portfolio to maximize the benefit to NOAA and its constituents.