Abstract: The empirical relationship between the maximum wind speed (MWS) of tropical storms and their characteristics pictured from satellites has been employed routinely since 1964. A large number of cases accumulated since then ...

Abstract: TIROS I satellite pictures for a 3-day period about, a developing ?Low system? over the central United States are shown. Cloud distribution about surface fronts and upper-air troughs was examined and compared to the ?ideal? ...