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| | NOAA's FY2002 Budget: Predicting Weather and Climate (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13) |
 | | NOAA is responsible for all U.S. weather and climate forecasting, monitoring and archiving of ocean and atmospheric data, management of marine fisheries and mammals, mapping and charting of all U.S. waters, coastal zone management, and research and development in all of these areas. |
 | | Fundamental to prediction of weather and climate are global observations of the atmosphere, ocean and the land surface. |
 | | The ability to navigate this information, seeking data that satisfies the direct needs of a variety of users, is likely to spark a new ''age of information'' that will promote economic benefit and engender new research directions and capabilities to integrate physical, biological, chemical and human systems. |
| commdocs.house.gov /committees/science/hsy73332.000/hsy73332_1.HTM (19031 words) |
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