NOAA Satellite and Information Service

NOAA's National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS), provides secure and timely access to global environmental data and information from satellites and other sources to promote and protect the nation's security, environment, economy, and quality of life. NESDIS adheres to the U.S. Department of Commerce's social media policy, ensuring responsible and transparent communication across our platforms. For more information, please visit the Department of Commerce Social Media Policy: https://www.commerce.gov/about/policies/social-media. Comment Guidelines for NESDIS Social Media Channels Your thoughts, ideas and concerns play a critical role in helping NOAA/Department of Commerce better explain our actions, improve our customer service and be even more responsive to the needs of the public. We are interested in feedback, but we are also a family-friendly page and expect all conversations to be polite and respectful. Therefore, we DO NOT allow comments that: -- Contain vulgar language; make personal attacks of any kind; or use offensive terms that target protected classes -- Are far off-topic -- Make unsupported accusations and/or spread false or purposefully misleading information -- Campaign or lobby for a political party or a candidate in a partisan political campaign (a campaign in which candidates are identified by political party); -- Spam, including content that promotes products or services or contains gratuitous links (links or references to other NOAA webpages or federal government sites are acceptable) -- Make advertisements, endorsements or promotions -- Promote commercial services, websites or products (non-commercial website links that are relevant to the NOAA content are acceptable) **Protect your own privacy and the privacy of others: Please do not include phone numbers, email addresses or other personal data in the body of your comment. If included, the comment will be removed for safety reasons.