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Experimental Satellite Derived Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP)

Sheldon Kusselson (NOAA/NESDIS/SSD)

Other Contributors:

Robert Kuligowski, Ralph Ferraro, Clay Davenport, Roderick Scofield (NESDIS/ORA)
Donna Mcnamara (NESDIS Satellite Services Division)
Jianbin Yang (RS Information Systems, Inc.)
Patrick Dills and Dr. Sherwood Wang (COMET)
Stanley Kidder and John Knaff (CIRA/Colorado State University)

1) Introduction

    The TRaP session of the POES teletraining series reviews a microwave-based satellite technique developed by NESDIS forecasters and researchers for estimating Tropical Rainfall Potential (TRaP) associated with tropical cyclones. The session begins with an overview of the technique's origins, which is followed by a detailed description of the TRaP methodology. Examples from past storms are used to illustrate the technique's successes, as well as its limitations. The session ends with a summary of future initiatives and planned improvements.

    The course outline can be found here.

    This is a Basic/Introductory course.

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. The session will last 75 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 (coming soon) 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). Note: If you get a message saying "Unable to read image files for this page", you will need to download a plug-in for your browser. Go to http://java.sun.com/getjava/download.html to download and install the plug-in.

    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 within the audio playback lesson version.


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    2002

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