Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

AMS 2025 Satellite Short Course – Exercise 1

Consecutive Atmospheric River Events (January 7-11,2023):

• Blended Total Precipitable Water (bTPW)
• Percent of Normal TPW
• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW)

Flood event in Missouri, Kentucky and Tennessee (July 18-19, 2023):

• Blended Total Precipitable Water (bTPW)
• Percent of Normal TPW
• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW)
• GOES TPW
• GOES TPW, bTPW, WV, IR

Flood event in northwest California (November 20-22, 2024):

• Blended Total Precipitable Water (bTPW)
• Percent of Normal TPW
• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW)

Flood event in Tennessee (August 21, 2021):

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW)
• Comparison of Current Operational Blended TPW (bTPW) with 2025 upgraded bTPW

Hurricane Helene (September 23-28, 2024):

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW)

Mesoscale snowband over Kansas (February 25, 2020):

• Advected Layer Precipitable Water (ALPW) with MRMS Composite Reflectivity
• ALPW captures frontogenesis assoicated with mesoscale snowband
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