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Fully Automated Cloud-Drift Winds in NESDIS Operations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Cloud-drift winds have been produced from geostationary satellite data in the Western Hemisphere since the early 1970s. During the early years, winds were used as an aid for the short-term forecaster in an era when numerical ...
Application of GOES-8/9 Soundings to Weather Forecasting and Nowcasting
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Since April 1994 a new generation of geostationary sounders has been measuring atmospheric radiances in 18 infrared spectral bands and thus providing the capability for investigating oceanographic and meteorological phenomena ...