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AN OLYMPIC FIRST: PARTNERS PROVIDING WEATHER SUPPORT FOR GAMES More than one million spectators, thousands of athletes, officials and local residents converge on Utah's Wasatch Front mountains and the greater Salt Lake City area for 2002 Winter Olympics events in February. Keeping the population aware of rapidly changing weather conditions is a challenge that falls to a team of weather forecasters from NOAA's National Weather Service, the private sector and academic community.

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COSPAS-SARSAT SEARCH AND RESCUE SYSTEM—TAKING THE "SEARCH" OUT OF "SEARCH AND RESCUE" NOAA operates a series of satellites that detect and locate aviators, mariners and land-based users in distress. These satellites, along with a network of ground stations and the U.S. Mission Control Center in Suitland, Md., are part of the International Cospas-Sarsat Program, whose mission is to relay distress signals to the international search and rescue community. Since the inception of the system in 1982, more than 13,000 lives have been rescued worldwide.

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BURRRR...EAST COAST WINTER SNOWSTORMS When an East Coast winter snow storm is in the forecast, people naturally wonder: when, where and how much? These questions pose some of the most difficult challenges that confront forecasters. To increase the accuracy of predicting and tracking East Coast winter snow storms, NOAA's National Weather Service completed an upgrade of one of its premier atmospheric numerical models. These upgrades will increase NOAA's accuracy of forecasting winter snow storms around the country.

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NEW MACHINES TO VISUALIZE DATA: AN IMMERSIVE VIRTUAL REALITY TEST BED AT NOAA's PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY NOAA's Pacific Marine Environmental Laboratory is utilizing new interactive and immersive visualization tools which provide unprecedented power to explore NOAA's data sets and to communicate new research findings. Full Story Inside

THE NOAA DIVING MANUAL—THE BIBLE OF PROFESSIONAL DIVERS The NOAA Diving Manual: Diving for Science and Technology is the working bible of diving professionals. Considered by many the standard for scientific and recreational diving, the fourth edition of the manual is a prerequisite for safe diving. Full Story Inside

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