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Video: NOAA's 50th Anniversary - Our People

September 25, 2020

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Welcome to noaa.gov

NOAA's 50th Anniversary video

Video: 50 Years of Science, Service, and Stewardship

January 13, 2020

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NOAA 50th Anniversary

NOAA's 50th Anniversary video

hand drawn representation of early United States map

Video: NOAA's 50th anniversary - Our birthday story

January 13, 2020

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NOAA 50th Anniversary

hand drawn representation of early United States map

NOAA and Cooperative Institute researchers pose with some of the instruments they will use to gather data in and near thunderstorms during TORUS on May 14, 2019 in Salina, Kansas.

From air, land and atmosphere: Massive project probes inner lives of supercells

May 17, 2019

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NOAA and Cooperative Institute researchers pose with some of the instruments they will use to gather data in and near thunderstorms during TORUS on May 14, 2019 in Salina, Kansas.

Disentangling a North Atlantic right whale on the U.S. East Coast. This whale was carrying over 450 feet of line and a 135-pound trap used for fishing. Rescue activities performed pursuant to NMFS MMHSRP Permits #18786 and 15488

Video: Teaming up for entangled whales

February 15, 2019

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Disentangling a North Atlantic right whale on the U.S. East Coast. This whale was carrying over 450 feet of line and a 135-pound trap used for fishing. Rescue activities performed pursuant to NMFS MMHSRP Permits #18786 and 15488

Floods are one of the most common U.S. natural disasters. A new NOAA award to the non-profit Nurture Nature Center in Easton, Pennsylvania will fund research to develop strategies to improve online flood forecasting tools and to better motivate residents to prepare for floods and respond to flood warnings.

Video: In FLASH, forecasters now have richer data to predict fast-moving floods

August 8, 2018

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Floods are one of the most common U.S. natural disasters. A new NOAA award to the non-profit Nurture Nature Center in Easton, Pennsylvania will fund research to develop strategies to improve online flood forecasting tools and to better motivate residents to prepare for floods and respond to flood warnings.

Emergency managers play an integral role in the testing, evaluation, and feedback during the development of probabilistic hazard information within the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed.

Video: Bad weather brings good opportunity to test forecast tools of the future

May 25, 2018

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Emergency managers play an integral role in the testing, evaluation, and feedback during the development of probabilistic hazard information within the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed.

One of NOAA's Hurricane Hunter P-3 Orion airplanes arrives in Monroe, Louisiana, for VORTEX-SE media day in March 2018.

Video: Hurricane Hunter in search of a different kind of storm

April 17, 2018

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hurricane hunters

One of NOAA's Hurricane Hunter P-3 Orion airplanes arrives in Monroe, Louisiana, for VORTEX-SE media day in March 2018.

An artist's rendering of NOAA's GOES-S satellite.

GOES-S: High-definition satellite imagery heads west

February 27, 2018

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geostationary satellite (GOES)

An artist's rendering of NOAA's GOES-S satellite.

A North Atlantic right whale is seen breaching. It is one of the most endangered whales in the world.

North Atlantic right whales: Please stay 500 yards away. See why.

February 15, 2018

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A North Atlantic right whale is seen breaching. It is one of the most endangered whales in the world.