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Integrated Sensor Training (IST) Professional Development Series

Unit 9: AWIPS Multi-Source Data Displays

Instructional Component 9.1.13

Use of GOES/RSO imagery with other Remote Sensor Data for Diagnosing Severe Weather across the CONUS (RSO 3)

Dan Bikos, John Weaver, Dan Lindsey and Jim Purdom


Other Contributors:
Dolores Kiessling (COMET), Jaime Daniels (NESDIS/ORA), CIMSS, WDTB, eastern and southern region HQ, and personnel from the following WFO's - BOI, PUB, RNK, PBZ, SGF, ILN

1) Introduction

    This is the third in a series of VISIT teletraining sessions on GOES Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) Imagery. The first session is titled Using GOES Rapid Scan Operations (RSO) Imagery in AWIPS and concentrated on what RSO is and how to call it. The second session is titled Mesoanalysis of convective weather using GOES RSO imagery and concentrated on incorporating satellite data in the short-range forecast, nowcasting, and warning decision making processes.

    This session consists of two parts. Both parts must be completed to get a certificate of completion as there are different points made in each part. Both parts 1 and 2 are contained in the same file.

    Objectives:

    • To review principles of using RSO to:
        • 1. Identify different air masses
        2. Analyze storm scale features


    • To demonstrate how RSO imagery is used most effectively with other datasets such as lightning, radar etc.


    • To present advanced case studies:
      • Severe weather cases that encompass a variety of regions across the CONUS

      • Application on multiple scales


2) Prerequisites
3) Teletraining Installation Instructions


4) Training Session Options:

    A.) The interactive VISITview training session. (To be used with a VISIT instructor leading the session ). Click here to signup for teletraining. Each part of the session will last 75 minutes. This teletraining session uses the VISITview software, where a Windows PC (with 256 MB RAM or greater) and an Internet connection is needed.

    B.) Web-based training session - a "stand alone" version viewed via a Web browser, with embedded talking points included. This lesson version may be viewed at any time. These slides are ideal for printing from the web-browser, just print preview first to choose portrait or landscape mode. Best viewed with Internet Explorer or Netscape (prior to version 6).

    C.) Web-based Visitview session - This version uses the VISITview software within a Web browser, may be viewed at any time. It retains all the functionality of the VISITview software which you see in a "live" teletraining session. The talking points are not included in this lesson version, but can be viewed in a separate Web browser (or printed out beforehand).

    D.) local Visitview session - This is the same version of the lesson used in a "live" VISITview teletraining session, but no connection is made to an external VISITview server. You may download the file off this page and go through the lesson on your own in "local mode" by starting the "visitlocal.bat" file. Talking points are not included in this lesson version, but can be viewed in a separate Web browser ( or printed out beforehand).

    E.) Audio playback - This VISITview file contains recorded audio and annotations and can be taken at anytime. Certificates of completion for NOAA employees can be obtained through your Science Operation Officer or training point of contact. For detailed information on how to view the recorded session click here.

    You may either request a DVD (with all VISIT audio playback files) OR download the file (see instructions below):

    Create a directory to download the audio playback file (it is about 231 MB in size) from one of the following sites:
    ftp://rammftp.cira.colostate.edu/bikos/audio/rso3_audio.exe
    OR
    ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/visit/audio/rso3_audio.exe

    After extracting the files into that directory click on the visitauto.bat file to start the lesson.

5) References/Additional Links

    Using GOES RSO Imagery in AWIPS

    Mesoanalysis using GOES RSO Imagery

    NESDIS GOES sounder single field of view (SFOV) product images

    NESDIS GOES sounder single field of view (SFOV) soundings

    Real-time GOES RSO data (RSO RAMSDIS online)

    Purdom, J.F.W., 1976: Some uses of high-resolution GOES imagery in the mesoscale forecasting of convection and its behavior. Mon. Wea. Rev., 104, 1474-1483.

    Scofield, R.A. and J.F.W. Purdom, 1986: The Use of Satellite data for Mesoscale Analyses and Forecasting Application. Chapter 7 in the book Mesoscale Meteorology and Forecasting, P.S. Ray, editor, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, 118-150.

    Davies, J.M., C.A. Doswell III, D.W. Burgess, and J.W. Weaver, 1994: Some noteworthy aspects of the Hesston, Kansas tornado family of 13 March 1990. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 1007-1017.

    Markowski. P.M., E.N. Rasmussen, and J.M. Straka, 1998: The occurrence of tornadoes in supercells interacting with boundaries during VORTEX-95. Wea. Forecasting, 11, 852-859.

    Weaver, J.F., 1979: Storm motion as related to boundary-layer convergence. Mon. Wea. Rev., 107, 612-619.

    Weaver, J.F., and S.P. Nelson, 1982: Multiscale aspects of thunderstorm gust fronts and their effects on subsequent storm development. Mon. Wea. Rev., 110, 707-718.

    Weaver, J.F., and J.F.W. Purdom, 1995: An interesting mesoscale storm-environment interaction observed just prior to changes in severe storm behavior. Wea. Forecasting, 10, 449-453.

    Bikos, D., Weaver, J., and B. Motta, 2002: A Satellite Perspective of the 3 May 1999 Great Plains Tornado Outbreak within Oklahoma. Wea. Forecasting, 17, 635-646.

    Browning, P., Weaver, J.F., and Connell, B., 1997: The Moberly, Missouri, Tornado of 4 July 1995. Wea. Forecasting, 12, 915-927.

    Purdom, J.F.W. 1990: Convective Scale Weather Analysis and Forecasting. Chapter VII-8 in Weather Satellites: Systems, Data, and Environmental Applications, Rao, P.K., Holmes, S.J., Anderson, R.K., Winston, J.S., Lehr, P.E, editors, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA, 285-304.

    Krauss, T.W. and J.D. Marwitz, 1984: Precipiation Processes within an Alberta Supercell Hailstorm. J. Atmos. Sci., 46, 1025-1034.

    Lemon, L.R., 1976: The Flanking Line, a Severe Thunderstorm Intensification Source. J. Atmos. Sci., 33, 686-694.

    Rasmussen, E.N., S. Richardson, J.M. Straka, P.M. Markowski, and D.O. Blanchard, 2000: The Association of Significant Tornadoes with a Baroclinic Boundary on 2 June 1995. Mon. Wea. Rev., 128, 174-191.

    Weaver, J.F, J.A. Knaff, D. Bikos, G.S. Wade, J.M. Daniels, 2002: Satellite Observations of a Severe Supercell Thunderstorm 24 July 2000 made during the GOES-11 Science Test. Wea. Forecasting, 17 (1), 124-138.

    Weaver, J.F, and D.T. Lindsey, 2004: Some frequently overlooked visual severe thundertorm characteristics observed on GOES imagery - a topic for future research. Monthly Weather Review, Vol. 132, pp. 1529-1533.

6) Train the trainer

    Talking points - these may be used by local offices in tandem with the visitview training session (run in local mode - "visitlocal.bat"). The talking points may be printed out to easily review the session in detail at any time. The web page version contains talking points embedded in each slide (useful for printing).

    The talking points may be downloaded as a Word document.

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    2003
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