August 6, 2004

Gretchen Cook-Anderson 
Headquarters, Washington
(Phone: 202/358-0836)

Rob Gutro
Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, Md. 
(Phone: 301/286-4044)

NOTE TO EDITORS: 04-118

NASA'S HURRICANE SEASON: RESOURCES FOR REPORTERS

The first tropical cyclone of the season, Alex, has also become the 
first major hurricane of the season, and NASA has the resources 
reporters need to cover it and those to follow: video, satellite 
pictures, research data, and hurricane specialists. 

NASA Television can be seen in the continental United States on AMC-6, 
at 72 degrees west longitude, Transponder 9, 3880 MHz, vertical 
polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. If you live in Alaska or Hawaii, NASA 
TV can now be seen on AMC-7, at 137 degrees west longitude, 
Transponder 18, at 4060 MHz, vertical polarization, audio at 6.8 MHz. 
For information about NASA TV on the Internet, visit: 



http://www.nasa.gov/ntv 

NASA TV has a one-stop "Hurricane Resource Reel." It has animations 
and video of different aspects of hurricane research, from a 
hurricane's "heat engine" to El Nino's affect on tropical cyclones. 
For copies of the video or to arrange live-shot interviews with 
hurricane specialists, contact Wade Sisler, NASA Goddard Space Flight 
Center, Greenbelt, Md. Sisler is available at 301/286-6256. 

For more information and images about hurricane research on the 
Internet, visit:



http://www.gsfc.nasa.gov/topstory/2004/0805hurricanes.html

For information about NASA and agency missions on the Internet, visit:



http://www.nasa.gov

	
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