Continuity of NOAA Satellites (1997) / Chapter Skim
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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION
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These range from daily inputs to global forecast models, the nearreal-time tracking of hurricanes and severe storms, the mapping of snow cover, and the determination of temperature and water vapor content of the atmosphere to the provision of animated cloud images we have all come to expect on daily television news programs. NOAA, other government agencies, research organizations (including academia)
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receiving and relaying emergency beacon signals in support of search and rescue services (cooperative program of Canada, France, Russia, and the United States; governments, private sector) collecting and relaying ocean, land, and atmospheric data from a wide variety of automatic observing devices to central locations; broadcasting processed satellite data to relatively low cost receivers (governments, private sector, academia, research)
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In carrying out its tasks, the panel arranged five formal briefings with NOAA/ NWS. They spoke with NOAA personnel involved in the procurement, production, and operational phases of the satellite programs and with NWS personnel who use satellite data for monitoring the weather and for developing numerical models used to produce daily weather forecasts.
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