Abstract: Images of the 85-GHz frequency from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager (SSM/I) aboard the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program (DMSP) spacecraft are routinely viewed by forecasters for tropical cyclone analyses. These ...

Abstract: Using data from the GOES-8?9 imager, this paper discusses the potential for consistent, around-the-clock image products that can trace the movement and evolution of low, stratiform clouds. In particular, the paper discusses ...

Abstract: loud-top verification is inherently difficult because of large uncertainties in the estimates of observed cloud-top height. Misplacement of cloud top associated with transmittance through optically thin cirrus is one of ...

Abstract: Tropical cyclone (TC) monitoring requires the use of multiple satellites and sensors to accurately assess TC location and intensity. Visible and infrared (vis/IR) data provide the bulk of TC information, but upper?level ...

Abstract: Data-mining methods are applied to numerical weather prediction (NWP) output and satellite data to develop automated algorithms for the diagnosis of cloud ceiling height in regions where no local observations are available ...

Abstract: Dust storms are a significant weather phenomenon in the Iraq region in winter and spring. Real-time dust forecasting using the U.S. Navy?s Coupled Ocean?Atmospheric Mesoscale Prediction System (COAMPS) with an in-line dust ...

Abstract: ghttime visible digital data from the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) has the potential to compliment the current infrared imagery standard bearer in monitoring global tropical cyclone characteristics.

Abstract: Under the auspices of the National Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite System's (NPOESS) Integrated Program Office (IPO), the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has developed ?NexSat? (www.nrlmry.navy.mil/nex ...