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July 22, 1996

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

(Editor's Note: The following is a revised release. Please disregard release 
dated July 17, 1996 - Georgia Tech Scientific Visualization Lab Helps Bring 
Olympic Weather Forecasts to the World.) 

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	Georgia Tech Information Technology's Scientific Visualization Lab 
	      Helps Bring Olympic Weather Forecasts to the World
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	ATLANTA--Working together, the National Weather Service, the National 
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Forecast Systems Lab, and IBM are
presenting to the world Olympic Games weather forecasts at an unprecedented 
level of precision.  The weather forecasts run at a geographic resolution much 
higher than usual, multiple times per day.  Forecasts are 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

	The Georgia Tech Office of Information Technology's Scientific 
Visualization (SciVis) Lab set up the Web pages for this effort and is posting 
information several times per day.  In addition to the above information, 
visitors can access MPEG (Moving Picture Experts Group) visualizations, 
constructed by IBM, of the forecast model.  High resolution 3D visualizations 
are also used throughout.
	The Olympic Weather Page is accessible from 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/>.  A link to the SciVis Lab <http://www.gatech.edu/scivis/> is 
included on the Olympic Weather Web Page.

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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! :-)