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NOAA Improving Forecasts and Warnings B-Roll - Release date: 9/11/98

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1:01:12 WSR 88D Doppler Radar Towers
1:01:17 a) Time Lapse of Tower
1:01:22 b) Rotating dish inside globe

1:01:30
Exterior Views of a Modern National Weather Service Forecast Office
1:02:19
3D Animation of modernized NWS technologies
providing a blanket of protection to the Nation
(GOES Satellites, WSR 88-D Doppler Radars, Automated
Surface Observing Systems, Modernized Field Offices)

1:02:23
Automated Surface Observing Systems
Instruments providing minute-by-minute data around the clock

1:02:56
Meteorologists using the Advanced Weather Interactive
Processing Systems (AWIPS) workstations

GOES(Geostationary Orbiting Satellite) Imagery:
1:03:46 a) Model of GOES Satellite
1:04:00 b) Zoom in to cloud cover over Midwest
1:04:14 c) Evaporation and generation of clouds over Florida
1:04:25 d) Weather Systems over USA-
dissolve to color enhancement
1:04:36 e) Storm system generation

1:04:40
Hurricane Hugo

1:04:51
Hurricane Andrew (from previous GOES)

1:05:07 GOES-9 Hurricane Luis
1:05:22 Hurricane Luis Gravity Waves

1:05:33
Hurricane Opal

1:05:49
Jerrold Texas Tornadoes- GOES 8- May, 1997

1:06:59
WSR 88D Time Lapse Loops:
Cold front passes Melbourne, FL
1. Relativity
2. Velocity

1:07:34
Doppler Radar Imagery

1:07:54 3D Storm and Hurricane Simulations:
1:07:58 a) Fly into the eye of a hurricane
1:08:06 b)3D Simulated Hurricane Andrew Flyover
courtesy of Fritz Hasler, NASA-Goddard Space Flight Center
1:08:48 c) Hurricane Emily Simulation
1:09:04 d) Storm generation desktop simulation
1:09:07 e) Fly to center of Andrew
1:09:13 f) Hurricane Dynamics
courtesy of the American Institute of Physics

1:09:34
Meteorologists using a WSR 88D workstation to view

Radar Imagery
1:09:39
Interior Views of modern National Weather Service forecast office

1:10:58
NOAA Weather Radio Broadcast

1:11:16
NOAA Weather Radio broadcast utilizing Specific Area Message Encoding (SAME)

1:11:35
Weather Balloon Release

1:12:11 NOAA P-3 Hurricane Research Aircraft
1:13:05 P-3 Aircraft into the Eye of Hurricane Edouard
8/25/97 - 8/29/97

1:13:58
Gulfstream IV Hurricane Research Jet

1:14:54
Vortex Experiment: National Severe Storms Laboratory

1:15:32 Selected Tornadoes

1:16:10
Subvortex Experiment : Portable Doppler Units

1:17:40
Launch of Atlas GOES-K Satellite

1:18:05
Massively Parallel Processor

1:18:05
Cray C90 Supercomputer

1:19:37
Meteorologists at the National Centers for Environmental
Prediction (NCEP)- Camp Springs, Md.

1:20:53
Wallops Command and Data Acquisition Center
(Facility that sends and receives satellite commands and data)

1:21:17
Data Buoys

1:21:58
Microburst on Radar Screen

1:22:08
Microburst Simulation in Laboratory

1:22:23
Severe Weather Clips

1:23:55
Weather Archives (old footage of weathercasters and forecasting)

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