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| | WFO SHV - Cooperative Observer Network (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The Cooperative Weather Observer Program is an extensive network of volunteer weather observers (>12,000) across the U.S. that voluntarily collects information such as temperature, daily precipitation, soil temperature, evaporation, wind movement, agricultural data, snowfall, river stages, lake levels, and atmospheric phenomena. |
 | | The National Weather Service supplies the equipment, and the observers collect the data and relays it to the local National Weather Service office, where it is sent to the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, NC to be permanently archived. |
 | | Length of Service awards are presented to individual Cooperative Observers at 5 year increments, beginning at the 10 year anniversary. |
| www.srh.noaa.gov /shv/coop.htm (340 words) |
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