Louie Grasso, Dan Lindsey, J. Braun Synthetic GOES-12 satellite imagery at 3.9 µm has been produced for a thunderstorm simulation. This event occurred on 27 June 2005 over the upper Midwest of the United States. Observations (Figure 1 – click image for larger format) shows warmer cloud tops (light grey) for storms over western Nebraska Continue Reading
Jeff Braun Below are some links to, or copies of, some perhaps lesser known meteorological training materials. Many of these have been born out of Aviation Weather programs either here in the USA through the military Air Force Weather Agency (AFWA) or the FAA, or from up north and our Canadian Neighbors. Although some of Continue Reading
From NSSL: April 28, 2008 NSSL is hosting the six-week Experimental Warning Program (EWP) Spring Program beginning today, 28 April 2008, in the NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed at the National Weather Center in Norman, Okla. The mission of the EWP Spring Program is to evaluate the accuracy and operational utility of new science, technology, and Continue Reading
(Click for larger view.) As many of you know (or may not know) the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) decided to drop plans for the development of the Hyperspectral Environmental Suite (HES) (aka. the Advanced Baseline Imager/Sounder) for the “next generation” of geostationary weather satellites (GOES-R and Beyond). The common line was that NOAA was not confident that a brand new Continue Reading
