The authors thank Roy Galvin of ITT and Edward Wack of MIT/Lincoln Laboratory for assistance with analyses of pre-launch test data; Brent Goddard of NOAA/NESDIS for assistance during check out and routine operations; Tim Schmit of the University of Wisconsin for computing the GVAR scaling coefficients; Donald Mack of Integral Systems, Inc., Marvin Maxwell and William Bryant, Jr. of Swales and Associates, Inc., and Opal Chen and John Gaiser of Space Systems/Loral for valuable advice; W. P. Menzel and C. R. N. Rao of NOAA/NESDIS for critical readings of the manuscript.

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