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Nov. 02, 2012
Seeing Sandy From Space
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What does satellite imagery reveal about Hurricane Sandy? Owen Kelley at NASA is using satellite data to visualize the internal structure of the storm and Marshall Shepherd, president-elect of the American Meteorological Society and the director of the atmospheric sciences program at the University of Georgia, discusses what made this storm so unusual.
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Produced by Flora Lichtman, Correspondent and Managing Editor, Video
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Flora Lichtman
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J. Marshall Shepherd
President-Elect, American Meteorological Society
Director, Atmospheric Sciences Program
University of Georgia
Athens, Georgia
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