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Does this area look familiar? We georeferenced NOAA's JPGs and made a mosaic dataset that covered the coast of Long Beach (the area indicated above. The folks at National Geographic georeferenced at least 150 of NOAA's JPGs, likely more, to construct a mosaic that covered the coast of all of Harrison County. If you're interested in poking around the entire collection of post-Katrina vertical photographs (including those of New Orleans), then visit this NOAA website: http://ngs.woc.noaa.gov/katrina/KATRINA0000.HTM

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Take a look at this hurricane simulation model. Notice how they're using rasters to represent a continuous field of wind speed.