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PRESIDENT BUSH VISITS NOAA EXHIBITS

February 15, 2002 —

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Pres. Bush is all smiles as he views NOAA weather forecast online of his home town of Crawford, Texas. (Left to right standing: John Jones, NOAA's National Weather Service deputy director, Pres. Bush, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham; seated: Barbara McNaught-Watson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA's National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling, Va., which serves the Washington, D.C.-Baltimore region. (Click here for high-resolution version of image.)
President Bush gets ready to view the weather forecast for his home town of Crawford, Texas. (left to right standing: John Jones, NOAA's National Weather Service deputy director, Pres. Bush, Commerce Secretary Don Evans; seated: Barbara McNaught-Watson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA's National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling, Va.
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President Bush gets a printout of NOAA weather forecast for his home town of Crawford, Texas. (Left to right standing: John Jones, NOAA's National Weather Service deputy director, Pres. Bush, Commerce Secretary Don Evans, NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher, behind Lautenbacher is EPA Administrator Christie Todd Whitman, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham; seated: Barbara McNaught-Watson, Warning Coordination Meteorologist at NOAA's National Weather Service forecast office in Sterling, Va.
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President Bush speaks with NOAA Administrator Conrad Lautenbacher, Bruce Hicks, director of NOAA's Air Resources Laboratory, and research meteorologists Glenn Rolph and Roland Draxler at Air Resources Laboratory exhibit. The ARL demonstrated the capability of HYSPLIT to forecast the spread of hazardous materials injected into the lower atmosphere by an accident or some other event.
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President Bush speaks with Tom Karl, director of NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, about billion-dollar weather events, global temperatures and USA heating degree days.
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President Bush visits the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System
display which shows the capabilities and benefits the satellite system provides to the nation.
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President Bush gets a demonstration from Stan Wilson, director of International Ocean Programs in NOAA Research, of the Argo float, which collects ocean data vital to the study of global climate and weather.
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President Bush speaks with Ants Leetmaa, director of NOAA's Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, about the the 3-D visualization machine known as the ImmersaDesk. The presentation gave the president an explanation of the weather phenomena El Niño and La Niña, their development, characteristics and effects.
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