Application of Meteosat second generation data towards improving the nowcasting of convective initiation

Meteorological Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 442-451

  Siewert, Christopher W ^a   Koenig, Marianne ^a   Mecikalski, John R ^b  

^a EUMETSAT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Convection; Nowcasting; Satellite

Indexed keywords

FORECASTING; HEAT CONVECTION; SATELLITES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURES; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; INSTABILITY INDEX; METEOSAT SECOND GENERATIONS; NOWCASTING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL CHANNELS;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

BRIGHTNESS TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE PREDICTION; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; GOES; METEOSAT; NOWCASTING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS;

CENTRAL EUROPE; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 78649687927     PISSN: 13504827     EISSN: 14698080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/met.176     Document Type: Article

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