Nowcasting convective storm initiation using satellite-based box-averaged cloud-top cooling and cloud-type trends

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 110-126

  Sieglaff, Justin M ^a   Cronce, Lee M ^a   Feltz, Wayne F ^a   Bedka, Kristopher M ^b   Pavolonis, Michael J ^c   Heidinger, Andrew K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b SCIENCE SYSTEMS AND APPLICATIONS INC   (United States)

^c NOAA/NESDIS Center for Satellite Applications and Research   (United States)

Author keywords

Convective storms; Lightning; Nowcasting; Radiances; Satellite observations; Temperature

Indexed keywords

AVIATION INDUSTRY; CLOUD MOTIONS; CLOUD-TO-GROUND LIGHTNING; CLOUDY SKIES; CONVECTIVE INITIATION; CONVECTIVE STORMS; COOLING RATES; DECISION SUPPORT TOOLS; GEOSTATIONARY IMAGERS; GEOSTATIONARY OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL SATELLITES; INFRARED WINDOW CHANNELS; METEOROLOGICAL OBSERVATION; NOWCAST; NOWCASTING; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION MODELS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; RADIANCES; RISK AREAS; RUNTIMES; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEVERE STORMS; SHARP BOUNDARIES; UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN;

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; COOLING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES; LIGHTNING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; METEOROLOGICAL RADAR; STORMS;

WEATHER FORECASTING;

CLOUD TO GROUND LIGHTNING; CONVECTIVE SYSTEM; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; GOES; NOWCASTING; SATELLITE DATA; THUNDERSTORM;

EID: 79951614926     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JAMC2496.1     Document Type: Article

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