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INTRODUCTION BY SESSION CHAIR 11 TRANSCRIPT OF PRESENTATION MR. NYCHKA: So, without further ado, our first speaker is going to be John Bates at the National Climatic Data Center. He will be talking about exploratory climate analysis and environmental satellites and weather radar data.