Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

Water Vapor Channels

Introduction

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the characteristics of the water vapor channel.
2. How to identify common signatures seen in the water vapor imagery.
3. Understand the relationship between water vapor imagery and dynamical structures.
4. Review potential vorticity thinking and relate water vapor imagery features to potential vorticity features.
5. How can you use water vapor imagery to assess numerical weather prediction model peformance.

Training Session Options

Note: Be sure to have your speakers on and the volume loud enough to hear the presentation.

1. Audio playback (recommended for low-bandwidth users) – This is an audio playback version in the form of a downloadable VISITview and can be taken at anytime.

   Create a directory to download the audio playback file (166 MB) from the following link: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/training/shymet/training_sessions/course_materials/RecordedWaterVapor.exe
   

   After extracting the files into that directory click on either the visitplay.bat or visitauto.bat file to start the lesson. If both files are present, use visitauto.bat