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Upper-tropospheric winds derived from geostationary satellite water vapor observations
| Content Provider | NASA Technical Reports Server (NTRS) |
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| Author | Wanzong, Steven Velden, Christopher S. Menzel, W. Paul Hayden, Christopher M. Nieman, Steven J. Goerss, James S. |
| Copyright Year | 1997 |
| Description | The coverage and quality of remotely sensed upper-tropospheric moisture parameters have improved considerably with the deployment of a new generation of operational geostationary meteorological satellites: GOES-8/9 and GMS-5. The GOES-8/9 water vapor imaging capabilities have increased as a result of improved radiometric sensitivity and higher spatial resolution. The addition of a water vapor sensing channel on the latest GMS permits nearly global viewing of upper-tropospheric water vapor (when joined with GOES and Meteosat) and enhances the commonality of geostationary meteorological satellite observing capabilities. Upper-tropospheric motions derived from sequential water vapor imagery provided by these satellites can be objectively extracted by automated techniques. Wind fields can be deduced in both cloudy and cloud-free environments. In addition to the spatially coherent nature of these vector fields, the GOES-8/9 multispectral water vapor sensing capabilities allow for determination of wind fields over multiple tropospheric layers in cloud-free environments. This article provides an update on the latest efforts to extract water vapor motion displacements over meteorological scales ranging from subsynoptic to global. The potential applications of these data to impact operations, numerical assimilation and prediction, and research studies are discussed. |
| File Size | 2016914 |
| Page Count | 26 |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://archive.org/details/NASA_NTRS_Archive_19980018993 |
| Archival Resource Key | ark:/13960/t01023p5g |
| Language | English |
| Publisher Date | 1997-02-01 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Meteorology And Climatology Moisture Content Troposphere Imaging Techniques Wind Velocity Satellite Observation Velocity Distribution Geosynchronous Orbits Water Vapor Goes 9 Goes 8 Remote Sensing Meteosat Satellite Ntrs Nasa Technical Reports Server (ntrs) Nasa Technical Reports Server Aerodynamics Aircraft Aerospace Engineering Aerospace Aeronautic Space Science |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
