Processing of the US climatologies continued on schedule. These included large sector composites for June, July and August 1999, and wind regime composites for May, June, and July 1999. Combined products cover 1998 and 1999 for GOES channels 1 and 4 were processed for April, May, and June.
Collection of PCGRIDDS - ETA 12 UTC model data continues daily. The gridded data are being used to generate a mean boundary layer (~1000-700 mb) wind speed and a resultant boundary layer wind direction to designate a wind regime for specific AWIPS sites for use in the monthly satellite CONUS climatologies. Wind regimes have been determined for May, June, July, and August 1999.
Full disk water vapor imagery (3 hour interval) from GOES-8 has been used to calculate 5-day running averages on pixels warmer than -35 C. The imagery from June through September, 1999 are being examined over the Atlantic basin for trends in dry/moist periods and their relations to hurricane formation. October imagery will also be collected and processed as it becomes available.
See NWS Interaction for an update on the Florida Summer Sea Breeze Satellite Climatology Project.
See RMTC Interaction for an update on the Costa Rica and Barbados Satellite Climatology Projects.
