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Integrated Sensor Training (IST) Professional Development Series

ISTPDS Unit : 6

Instructional Component 6.2.8

Subtropical Cyclone Analysis with Satellite Data

  Ray Zehr

Other contributors: Brian Motta (CIRA/RAMM), Dan Lindsey and John Knaff (CIRA/RAMM),
Mark DeMaria (NOAA/NESDIS/ORA/RAMM), Jack Bevan and Jiann-Gwo Jing (NOAA/NWS/NCEP/TPC)
1) Introduction

    This session will focus on:

  • Atlantic subtropical cyclone climatology
  • Satellite image subtropical cyclone intensity analysis
  • Scatterometer / microwave satellite winds
2) Prerequisites:

    None. This is a Basic session
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. The session lasts 90 minutes. This teletraining session uses the VISITview software, where Windows PC (with 64 MB RAM or greater) with 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.

    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).

5) References and Links

    Knaff, John A., Raymond M. Zehr, Mitchell D. Goldberg, Stanley Q. Kidder, 2000: An Example of Temperature Structure Differences in Two Cyclone Systems Derived from the Advanced Microwave Sounder Unit. Weather and Forecasting: Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 476–483.

    Simpson, R.H., 1952: Evolution of the Kona storm, a subtropical cyclone. J. Meteor.,16, 24-35.

    Hebert, P.J., and K.O. Poteat, 1975: A satellite classification technique for subtropical cyclones. NOAA Technical Memorandum NWS SR-83. U.S. Dept. of Commerce, National Weather Service Southern Region, Fort Worth, TX, 76102, 25 pp.

    Roth, D.M., 2002: A fifty-year history of subtropical cyclones. Preprints, 25th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, 2002, 70-71.

    Dvorak, V.F., 1984: Tropical cyclone intensity analysis using satellite data. NOAA Tech. Report NESDIS 11, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington.

    Kidder, S. Q., M. D. Goldberg, R. M. Zehr, M. DeMaria, J.F.W. Purdom, C. S. Velden, N. C. Grody, and S. J. Kusselson, 2000: Satellite analysis of tropical cyclones using the Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU). Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 81, 1241-1259.

    Miner, T., P. J. Sousounis, J. Wallman, G. Mann, 2000: Hurricane Huron. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Soceity, 81, 223-236.

    Sousounis, P. J., J. Wallman, G. E. Mann, T. J. Miner, 2001: Hurricane Huron: An Example of an Extreme Lake-Aggregate Effect in Autumn. Monthly Weather Review, 129, 401-419.
6) Content developed/updated
    2002
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