; and (2) recommended agency policy changes to increase research to operations activities in the coming fiscal year. 403. National Mesonet Program (a) Findings Congress finds that— (1) since the initial establishment of a private-public partnership demonstration program, the National Mesonet Program has leveraged data collected by existing weather station networks to— (A) provide accurate, real-time observation for weather forecasters and emergency response personnel in metropolitan areas across the United States; (B) address persistent impediments, identified in a National Academy of Sciences Report released in 2009, to fulfill the need for broader and denser weather observation networks to improve severe weather lead-times; (C) achieve major improvements for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the broader American Weather Enterprise, despite some significant development issues and cost overruns, according to a National Academy of Sciences Report released in 2011; (D) increase the amount of non-Federal weather data available to government by orders of magnitude; and (E) improve understanding of the impact, the size and duration of mesoscale weather events