Satellite derived integrated water vapor and rain intensity patterns: Indicators of rapid cyclogenesis

We examine integrated water vapor fields and rain intensity patterns derived from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) for several rapidly deepening and non-rapidly deepening midlatitude cyclones in the North Atlantic. Our goal is to ident...

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Main Authors: Katsaros, Kristina, Mcmurdie, Lynn
Format: Other/Unknown Material
Language:unknown
Published: 1992
Subjects:
METEOROLOGY AND CLIMATOLOGY
North Atlantic
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2060/19930001661
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Summary:We examine integrated water vapor fields and rain intensity patterns derived from the Scanning Multichannel Microwave Radiometer (SMMR) and Special Sensor Microwave/Imager (SSM/I) for several rapidly deepening and non-rapidly deepening midlatitude cyclones in the North Atlantic. Our goal is to identify features in the satellite data unique to the rapidly deepening cases, and to explore how these data can potentially be used in the analysis and forecasting of these events.

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