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During 2002 Vice Admiral Conrad C. Lautenbacher, Jr., USN (Ret.) called for a fundamental review of NOAA's strengths and opportunities for improvement.

The generation of global MODIS/Aqua Emiliania huxleyi bloom and calcite concentration products will be terminated on 22 May 2014 unless a NOAA operational user for either of these products is identified prior to this date.

NOAA-15 ATOVS capability will be replaced with a Metop capabilities (i.e., Metop-A and Metop-B ATOVS capability) in order to optimize resources to accommodate the Metop- capabilities.

Four of the six instruments that will fly on the GOES-R satellite ere delivered to Lockheed Martin in Denver for integration onto the spacecraft bus.

The ability to use satellites to locate a storm that could evolve into a severe storm, or hurricane,.

What do severe storms like Sandy, Katrina, and Haiyan, as well as non-weather related incidents like the Deepwater Horizon spill.

The NOAA-18 and NOAA-19 ATOVS Sounding capability will be replaced with a Metop-A/Metop-B and SNPP (NOAA Unique CrIS/ ATMS Product System (NUCAPS)) capabilities in order to optimize and accommodate new soundings missions within NOAA/NESDIS.

The Himalayas – with some of the highest mountain peaks on Earth – serve as a continental divide between Central and Southern Asia…