Contributors Sponsors National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) National Weather Service (NWS) Naval Meteorology and Oceanography Command (NMOC) Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) National Environmental Satellite Data and Information Service (NESDIS) National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System (NPOESS) Meteorological Service of Canada (MSC) Principal Science Advisor/Audio Narration Dr. Kevin Trenberth — UCAR/NCAR/CGD Project Lead Wendy Schreiber-Abshire — UCAR/COMET Multimedia Authoring Dan Riter — UCAR/COMET Project Meteorologist Kevin Fuell — UCAR/COMET Audio Editing/Production Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET Computer Graphics/Interface Design Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET Illustration/Animation Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Smith — UCAR/COMET Copyright Administration Lorrie Fyffe — UCAR/COMET Data Provided by AGU AMS IPCC NOAA NSIDC COMET Staff Director Dr. Timothy Spangler Deputy Director Dr. Joe Lamos Meteorologist Resources Group Head Dr. Greg Byrd Business Manager/Supervisor of Administration Elizabeth Lessard Administration Lorrie Fyffe Heather Hollingsworth Linda Korsgaard Bonnie Slagel Graphics/Media Production Steve Deyo Heidi Godsil Seth Lamos Dan Riter Hardware/Software Support and Programming Tim Alberta (Supervisor) James Hamm Karl Hanzel Andrew Jurey (Student) Ken Kim Mark Mulholland Carl Whitehurst Instructional Design Patrick Parrish (Supervisor) Dr. Alan Bol Lon Goldstein Dr. Vickie Johnson Bruce Muller Katherine Olson Dwight Owens Dr. Sherwood Wang Meteorologists Dr. William Bua Patrick Dills Tom Dulong Kevin Fuell Patrick Hofmann (Student) Dr. Stephen Jascourt Matthew Kelsch Dolores Kiessling Dr. Richard Koehler Dr. Arlene Laing Heather McIntyre (Student) Liz Page Wendy Schreiber-Abshire Dr. Doug Wesley Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Smith (Coordinator) National Weather Service COMET Branch Anthony Mostek (NWS COMET Branch Chief [acting] and Satellite Training Leader) Brian Motta Dr. Robert Rozumalski (SOO Science and Training Resource [SOO/STRC] Coordinator) Shannon White (IFPS Training) Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists Peter Lewis Garry Toth