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NOAA Science on a SphereTM NOAA SOSTM Operational Mesoscale NWP to Support U.S. Space Launch Operations Mesoscale NWP A Customized Design for Managing and Disseminating Bitemporal Metadata Managing Metadata Designing the Object Data System Object Data System Collaborating to Improve GPS Accuracy and NOAA Weather Forecasting GPS Forecasting Multicast Data Distribution on the AWIPS Local Area Network Data Distribution New Weather Products for the Air Traffic Control Center Weather Products Briefs Briefs Recent Publications Recent Publications