High-latitude atmospheric motion vectors from composite satellite data

Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 534-547

  Lazzara, Matthew A ^a,b   Dworak, Richard ^b   Santek, David A ^b   Hoover, Brett T ^b   Velden, Christopher S ^b   Key, Jeffrey R ^c  

^a Antarctic Meteorological Research Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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

Author keywords

Cloud tracking cloud motion winds

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC MOTION VECTORS; CLOUD TRACKING; GLOBAL FORECAST SYSTEMS; METEOROLOGICAL CONDITION; MULTI-YEAR PERIODS; NUMERICAL WEATHER PREDICTION; SATELLITE COMPOSITE; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

IMAGE COMPRESSION; WEATHER FORECASTING;

GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITES;

ATMOSPHERIC CONVECTION; ATMOSPHERIC DYNAMICS; CLOUD; GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TRACKING; VECTOR; WEATHER FORECASTING; WIND;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84897611580     PISSN: 15588424     EISSN: 15588432     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JAMC-D-13-0160.1     Document Type: Article

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