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RISNew Estimate of Annual Poleward Energy Transport by Northern Hemisphere Oceans
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Recent measurements of the earth's radiation budget from satellites, together with extensive atmospheric energy transport summaries based on rawinsonde data, allow a new estimate of the required poleward energy transport ...
The Diurnal Cycle of West Pacific Deep Convection and Its Relation to the Spatial and Temporal Variation of Tropical MCSs
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Infrared (IR) and visible satellite data from the Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite (GMS-4) with 5-km spatial and 1-h temporal resolution were used to examine the diurnal cycle of deep convection over a sector ...
On the Use of Satellites in Molniya Orbits for Meteorological Observation of Middle and High Latitudes
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Time and space sampling is an increasingly critical aspect of Earth observation satellites. The highly eccentric orbit used by Soviet Molniya satellites functions much like a high-latitude geostationary orbit. Meteorological ...
A Bispectral Method for Cloud Parameter Determination
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A technique is presented for determining cloud heights and amounts through the use of simultaneous. infrared and visible satellite radiance data. A set of simultaneous equations are developed which solve for cloud-top ...
Retrieval of Water Vapor Profiles via Principal Components: Options and Their Implications
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Principal components have been widely used in regression retrieval of atmospheric parameters, but when applied to water vapor concentrations their use entails special problems. We discuss two of these problem and present ...
A Comparison of Radar-Determined Cloud Height and Reflected Solar Radiance Measured from the Geosynchronous Satellite ATS-3
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: A number of large tropical cumulus clouds which developed and decayed over a one-day period were monitored by both ship-based radar and the reflected solar radiance experiment on the geosynchronous satellite ATS-3. A ...
Cloud and Convection Frequencies over the Southeast United States as Related to Small-Scale Geographic Features
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Visible and infrared data from the GOES West satellite were collected at 0700 CST and at each hour from 1000 CST to 1700 CST during summer 1986. Use of relatively high spatial and temporal resolution satellite data allowed ...
Retrieval and Use of High-Resolution Moisture and Stability Fields from Nimbus 6 HIRS Radiances in Pre-Convective Situations
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: This is a study of environmental conditions prior to convective development on the Great Plains of the United States on four case study days in August 1975. The tool used was the High-resolution Infrared Radiation Sounder ...
Moisture Convergence Using Satellite-Derived Wind Fields: A Severe Local Storm Case Study
Publisher: American Meteorological Society
Abstract: Five-minute interval 1 km resolution SMS visible channel data were used to derive low-level wind fields by tracking small cumulus clouds on NASA's Atmospheric and Oceanographic Information Processing System (AOIPS). The ...