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This session focuses on interpreting satellite imagery and products in tropical environments.
The objectives of this training session are:


• Describe some operationally-useful satellite data and products
  
  
• Understand how to utilize satellite data for tropical regions
  
  
• Understand how new experiemental multi-sensor tropical cyclone analyses are providing more detail

• GOES Module: Introduction
  
• POES Module 1: POES Products
  
• POES Module 2: Microwave

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 120 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).

• QuickScat near real-time winds
  http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/dataimages/qscat/cur
• GOES 3.9 um Tutorial
  rammb.cira.colostate.edu/goes39/cover.htm
• RAMSDIS Real-Time Data: rammb.cira.colostate.edu/Rmsdsol/TROPICAL.html
• AMSU data
  http://amsu.cira.colostate.edu/
• DMSP Info
  http://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/dmsp/
• NRL Marine/Tropical Meteorology Products
  http://www.nrlmry.navy.mil/sat-bin/tc_home
• AMSU Observations for Climate
  http://orbit-net.nesdis.noaa.gov/crad/st/amsuclimate/amsu.html
• NESDIS Scatterometer Winds from Multiple Sources
  http://manati.wwb.noaa.gov/doc/oceanwinds1.html
• NASA JPL Scatterometer - Quickscat
  http://winds.jpl.nasa.gov
• NASA TRMM Website
  http://trmm.gsfc.nasa.gov


3.9 micrometer


Menzel W. P. and J.F.W. Purdom, 1994: Introducing GOES-I: The first of a new generation of geostationary operational satellites. Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 755-781.

RAMM/CIRA tutorial on the use of 3.9 micron imagery: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/goes39/cover.htm


85 Ghz SSMI


Hawkins, J.D., J. Turk, and J. Haferman, 1999: Tropical cyclone structure via multiple passive microwave sensors. 23rd Conf. on Hurricanes and Trop. Met., Jan. 1999, Dallas, TX.

Holinger, J., 1989: DMSP Special Sensor Microwave/Imager Calibration/Validation, Final Report, Vol. 1, Naval Research Laboratory, Washington, D.C.


Scatterometer


Stoffelen, A.C.M., and D.L.T. Anderson, 1997: Scatterometer data interpretation: Measurement space and inversion, J. Atmos. Oceanic Technol., 14 (6), 1298-1313.


24-hr WV


Weldon R.B., and S.J. Holmes, 1991: Water vapor imagery: Interpretation and applications to weather analysis and forecasting. NOAA Tech. Report NESDIS 57, Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. 213 pp.


Motion relative


Lubich D.A. and J.F.W. Purdom, 1992: The use of cloud relative animation in the analysis of satellite data. 6th Conf. on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography, Feb., 1992, Atlanta, GA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA.

Molenar, D., Y. Jun, K.J. Schrab, and J.F.W. Purdom, 1994: Digital satellite data applications using PC based workstations. 11th International Conf. on Interactive Information and Processing Systems, Dallas, TX, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA.


Center relative


Knaff, J.A., and R. Zehr, 1999: Convective asymmetries in mature tropical cyclones associated with motion and vertical wind shear. 23rd Conf. on Hurricanes and Trop. Met., Jan. 1999, Dallas, TX.


TRMM


Simpson, J., C. Kummerow, W.-K. Tao, and R.F. Adler, 1996: On the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM). Meteor. Atmos. Phys., 60, 19-36.

Simpson, J., R.F. Adler, and G. North, 1988: A proposed Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM), Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 69, 278-295.


Quantifying IR


Zehr, R.M., 1987: The diurnal variation of deep convective clouds and cirrus with tropical cyclones. 17th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA.

Mundell, D.B., 1991: Tropical cyclone intensification. 19th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, Miami, FL, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA.

Zehr, R.M., 1995: Improving geostationary satellite applications for tropical cyclone forecasting. 21st Conf. On Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology.


Objective IR


Zehr, R.M., 1989: Improving objective satellite estimates of tropical cyclone intensity. 18th Conf. on Hurricanes and Tropical Meteorology, San Diego, CA, Amer. Meteor. Soc., Boston, MA.

Velden, C.S., T. Olander, and R. Zehr, 1998: Development of an objective scheme to estimate tropical cyclone intensity from digital geostationary satellite infrared imagery. Weather and Forecasting., 13, 172-186.


Dvorak


Dvorak, V.F., 1984: Tropical cyclone intensity analysis using satellite data. NOAA Tech. Report NESDIS 11, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C., 47 pp.


Surface Wind


Powell, M.D. and S.H. Houston, 1998: Surface wind fields of 1995 Hurricanes Erin, Opal, Luis, Marilyn, and Roxanne at landfall. Mon. Wea. Rev., 126, 1259-1273.

1999

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