Abstract: The global convective diagnostic (GCD) is a bispectral (infrared and water vapor), day?night scheme for operationally mapping deep convection by means of geostationary satellite images. This article describes a test of GCD ...

Abstract: n 1967, at the dawn of the satellite era, the Applications Technology Satellite 3 (ATS-3) provided the first full-disk ?true color? images of Earth. With its depiction of blue oceans, golden deserts, and green forestlands ...