CGMS Directory of Meteorological Satellite Applications

Chapter 3: Meteorological Applications

3-01 Identification of Weather Systems

3-02 Large Scale Atmospheric Dynamics from Water Vapour Data

3-03 Meteosat Winds as a Meteorological Diagnostic

3-04 Detecting Frontal Boundaries and Sea Breezes in Night-time Satellite Imagery

3-05 Using Cloud Imagery to Monitor Mesoscale Forecast Performance

3-06 Tracking Tropical Storms

3-07 Measuring Marine Winds

3-08 Monitoring Storms with Satellite Microwave Observations

3-09 The use of Scatterometer Sea Surface Winds for Numerical Weather Prediction

3-10 Impact of Humidity Profiles from Satellite Instruments on Weather Forecasts

3-11 Use of Meteosat to Improve Radar Precipitation Maps

3-12 Heavy Rain over China

3-13 Neural Network Image Classification for Weather Forecasting

3-14 Detection of Volcanic Clouds to Provide Warnings for Aviation

3-15 Use of Satellite Imagery for Meteorological Training in Europe

3-16 Use of Satellite Imagery for Meteorological Training in Africa

Main Contents - Preface - Acronyms - Chapter 1 - Chapter 2 - Chapter 4 - Chapter 5 - Chapter 6 - Chapter 7 - Chapter 8 - Chapter 9 - Chapter 10