Research Catalog

Title

Images in weather forecasting : a practical guide for interpreting satellite and radar imagery / edited by M.J. Bader [and others] ; foreword by K.A. Browning.

Publication

Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bader, M. J.

Description

xxiii, 499 pages : illustrations (some color); 26 cm

Summary

The aim of this manual is to present the meteorology student and operational forecaster with the current techniques for interpreting satellite and radar images of weather systems in mid-latitudes. Illustrations offer images matched with conceptual models and weather charts.

Subject

• Weather forecasting > Remote-sensing maps > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Satellite meteorology > Remote-sensing maps > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Radar meteorology > Remote-sensing maps > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Meteorology > Forecasting
• Radar meteorology
• Wettervorhersage
• Fernerkundung
• Weersverwachtingen
• Satellietfoto's
• Radar
• Satellites en météorologie
• Photographie météorologique
• Temps (météorologie) > Prévision > Télédétection
• Radar en météorologie
• Imagerie satellitaire
• Météorologie par satellite > Guides, manuels, etc

Genre/Form

• Handbooks and manuals
• Remote-sensing maps
• Remote-sensing maps.
• Spatiocartes.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Synopses of chapters / R.K. Anderson -- Introduction: The use of imagery in forecasting / A. Woodroffe and P.G. Wickham -- 1. Satellite imagery. 1.1. Basic principles / R. Brown and P.G. Wickham. 1.2. Simple identification / R.S. Scorer and P.G. Wickham -- 2. Radar imagery. 2.1. Basic principles / G.L. Austin and P.G. Wickham. 2.2. Simple identification / P.G. Wickham and D. Zrnic -- 3. Synoptic-scale cloud and moisture patterns -- 3.1. Introduction / R.K. Anderson, T.N. Carlson, J.R. Grant, M.J. Bader and K.B. Katsaros. 3.2. Interpreting large-scale patterns of cirriform cloud and moisture / R.K. Anderson. 3.3. Interpreting patterns of cumuliform clouds / R.K. Anderson. 3.4. Interpreting features associated with baroclinic troughs / R.K. Anderson and R.B. Weldon -- 4. Fronts and waves. 4.1. Classical cold fronts / G.A. Monk, M. Kurz and V. Zwatz-Meise. 4.2. Split cold fronts / G.A. Monk. 4.3. Warm fronts / V. Zwatz-Meise and J.R. Grant. 4.4. Instant (pseudo) occlusions / M. Kurz, McGinnigle, Young, Bader, Browning and Hill. 4.5. Synoptic-scale waves / M. Kurz and v. Zwatz-Meise -- 5. Depressions in mid-latitudes. 5.1. Cloud signatures preceding cyclogenesis / M.V. Young and J.R. Grant. 5.2. Types of cyclogenesis / M.V. Young, R.A. Bosworth, G.S. Forbes and L. Neil. 5.3. Mid-latitude cyclogenesis associated with tropical storms / M.V. Young, R.J. Graham and V. Pircher. 5.4. Occlusions and mature depressions / M. Kurz, M.V. Young and R.J. Grant. 5.5. Non-deepening depressions / M.V. Young. 5.6. Polar lows / E.A. Rasmussen -- 6. Convective cloud patterns -- 6.1. Overview / J.F.W. Purdom and A.J. Waters. 6.2. Convection initiated over oceans / E.M. Agee, B.A. Hall, E. McCallum, G.A. Monk and A.J. Waters. 6.3. Topographically induced convective cloud patterns / D. Parsons, J.F.W. Purdom, G.S. Forbes, R.B.E. Lilley and G.A. Monk. 6.4. Thunderstorm outflow and convective interaction / J.F.W. Purdom. 6.5. Organized mesoscale convective systems / J.F.W. Purdom, G.S. Forbes, R.B.E. Lilley, D. Parsons, V. Pircher, R. Scofield and A.J. Waters -- 7. Fog and low cloud. 7.1. Radiation fog and stratus / J.J. Gurka and R.J. Allam. 7.2. Sea fog / J.J. Gurka and J. Findlater. 7.3. Stratocumulus / P.G. Wickham, R.J. Allam, G. Holpin and W.T. Roach -- 8. Orographic and polar phenomena. 8.1. Clouds generated by mountains / R.S. Scorer, R.K. Anderson and G. Ellrod. 8.2. Mountain barrier effects: fohn / H.P. Roesli. 8.3. Polar phenomena / J. Turner and M. Row.

ISBN

• 0521451116
• 9780521451116
• 0521629152
• 9780521629157

LCCN

95018308

OCLC

• ocm32510551
• 32510551
• SCSB-9238536

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library