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July 17, 1996

NEWS

For more information contact:
Toni Lynn Mills, Program Coordinator II
404-894-8997 or toni.mills@oit.gatech.edu

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               Georgia Tech Scientific Visualization Lab Helps
               Bring Olympic Weather Forecasts to the World
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        ATLANTA--Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology's Scientific
Visualization Lab is helping the National Weather Service and IBM provide
the world with Olympic Games weather forecasts at an unprecedented level of
precision.
        The SciVis Lab is assisting the National Weather Service and IBM in
creating an Olympic weather Web page. The weather forecasts will run at a
geographic resolution over 100 times greater than usual, multiple times per
day. Forecasts will be made for the Olympic Ring and other venues, rather
than for the usual large regions.  Through the Web page, visitors can
access the following information for each venue:

                - Climatological/Historical Data
                - Current Conditions
                - Forecast (Today, Tomorrow, and Extended)
                - Watches and Warnings

        They will also have access to MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group)
visualizations of the forecast model, and high resolution 3D visualizations
will be used throughout.
        There will soon be a link to the Olympic Weather Web Page off the
Atlanta Committee for the Olympic Games (ACOG) home page at
<http://www.atlanta.olympic.org>. The direct Web address to the Olympic
Weather page is <http://weather.atlanta.olympic.org/>. The page is
currently receiving about 300,000 hits a day, and that number is expected
to grow to 10 MILLION daily hits when the Games begin.
        A link to the SciVis Lab <http://www.gatech.edu/scivis/> is
included on the Olympic Weather Web Page, and Georgia Tech expects an
enormous increase in Web visitors to the Lab, OIT, and Georgia Tech during
the Games.
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MILLS,TONI L. (Program Coordinator II-Public Relations) (404) 894-8997
Office of Information Technology - Resource Management
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332-0700 
Internet: toni.mills@oit.gatech.edu          Have a great day! :-)