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 Advisors Tom Lee – Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), Marine Meteorology Division (NRL-MMD) Associate Science Advisor Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET Project Leads Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET Dr. Sherwood Wang — UCAR/COMET Instructional Designer Dr. Sherwood Wang — UCAR/COMET Project Meteorologist Patrick Dills — UCAR/COMET Multimedia Authoring/Additional Instructional Design Carl Whitehurst — UCAR/COMET Audio Editing/Production Seth Lamos — UCAR/COMET Computer Graphics/Animation Steve Deyo — UCAR/COMET Heidi Godsil — UCAR/COMET Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Smith — UCAR/COMET Copyright Administration Lorrie Fyffe — UCAR/COMET Data Provided by EUMETSAT NASA NOAA — NESDIS NRL — MMD Special thanks to the Scripps Institution of Oceanography for providing access to the DMSP data used in this module. Narration Tom Lee — NRL, MMD COMET HTML Integration Team 2020 Tim Alberta — Project Manager Dolores Kiessling — Project Lead Steve Deyo — Graphic Artist Gary Pacheco — Lead Web Developer David Russi — Translations Gretchen Throop Williams — Web Developer Tyler Winstead — Web Developer COMET Staff Fall 2002 Director Dr. Timothy Spangler Deputy Director Dr. Joe Lamos Meteorologist Resources Group Head Dr. Greg Byrd Business Manager/Supervisor of Administration Elizabeth Lessard Administration Penina Frager Lorrie Fyffe Bonnie Slagel Graphics/Media Production Steve Bollinger (Contract Employee) Steve Deyo Heidi Godsil Seth Lamos Dan Riter (Contract Employee) Hardware/Software Support and Programming Tim Alberta David Ellis (Student) James Hamm Karl Hanzel Ken Kim Max Parris (Student) Carl Whitehurst Instructional Design Patrick Parrish (Supervisor) Dr. Alan Bol Dr. Vickie Johnson Bruce Muller Dr. Sherwood Wang Meteorologists Dr. William Bua Patrick Dills Kevin Fuell Jonathan Heyl (Student) Dr. Stephen Jascourt Matthew Kelsch Dolores Kiessling Wendy Schreiber-Abshire Dr. Doug Wesley Software Testing/Quality Assurance Michael Brennan (Student) Michael Smith (Coordinator) National Weather Service COMET Branch Brian Motta Anthony Mostek (National Satellite Training Coordinator) Elizabeth Mulvihill Page Dr. Robert Rozumalski (SOO/SAC Coordinator) Meteorological Service of Canada Visiting Meteorologists Peter Lewis Garry Toth