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2025 AMS Annual Meeting Satellite Short Course:

Satellite Applications for Rainfall Rates and Flood Prediction


Course Information

Participants will learn about GOES-R and JPSS satellite product applications and models related to rainfall and flood events, and engage in hands-on exercises to investigate case studies using the products and models. At the end of the short course, participants will have developed an understanding of the satellite data and products pertaining to precipitation forecasting.


Agenda

Sunday, 12 January 2025 from 8:00am – 3:30pm CST


Presentations

Introduction / Course Summary

Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) New Products and Applications

Geostationary Earth Observations (GEO) New Products and Applications

GEO and LEO Precipitation and Rainfall Forecasting Products

Flood Mapping Products and Forecasting Inundation Extents using REOF analysis (FIER)

EOTEC DevNet 


Hands-On Exercises

Exercise 1

Exercise 2: FIER Technique

*Users will need a Google Colab account to participate in the activity and shared notebook.

Presentation: Amirhossein_Rostami_AMS_Short_Course_2025

Code, Datasets, and Shapefiles

 


Additional Resources

MetEd sessions on related topics: 

Precipitation prediction products:


 

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