Author Archives: Dan Lindsey

Synthetic Satellite Imagery evaluated at SPC

As part of NOAA’s Hazardous Weather Testbed Spring Experiment at the Storm Prediction Center, CIRA is delivering 3 synthetic imagery products to be evaluated in the Experimental Warning Portion of the experiment in their AWIPS-II system: 6.95 micrometers, 10.35 micrometers, … Continue reading

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Synthetic Fog Product

A new synthetic difference product is now being produced from the NSSL WRF-ARW output: the fog product, or 10.35 – 3.9 μm.  In order to generate synthetic 3.9 μm imagery in a timely manner, it’s necessary to assume that it’s always … Continue reading

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Using synthetic WRF imagery for low cloud forecasts

On the morning of 19 Jan. 2011, a nice example of using the simulated WRF imagery to forecast low clouds presented itself.  The image on the right is the 17-hour forecast from the 00Z WRF run, and low clouds are … Continue reading

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