Weather Analysis and Forecasting: Applying Satellite Water Vapor Imagery and Potential Vorticity Analysis, Second Edition, is a step-by-step essential training manual for forecasters in meteorological services worldwide, and a valuable text for graduate students in atmospheric physics and satellite meteorology. In this practical guide, P. Santurette, C.G. Georgiev, and K. Maynard show how to interpret water vapor patterns in terms of dynamical processes in the atmosphere and their relation to diagnostics available from numerical weather prediction models. In particular, they concentrate on the close relationship between satellite imagery and the potential vorticity fields in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. These applications are illustrated with color images based on real meteorological situations over mid-latitudes, subtropical and tropical areas.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. Part 1. Fundamentals - p. xvi 3. Chapter 1. A Dynamical View of Synoptic Development - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. The Interpretation Problem of Satellite Water Vapor Imagery - p. 21 5. Part 2. Practical Use of Water Vapor Imagery and Thermodynamic Fields - p. 51 6. Chapter 3. Significant Water Vapor Imagery Features Associated With Synoptic Thermodynamic Structures - p. 55 7. 3.1. Operational Use of Radiation Measurements in Water Vapor Channels 6.2 and 7.3μm - p. 56 8. 3.2. Interpretation of Synoptic-Scale Imagery Features - p. 57 9. 3.3. Middle- to Upper-Troposphere Wind Field Features - p. 68 10. 3.4. Blocking Regime - p. 91 11. 3.5. Cyclogenesis and Atmospheric Fronts - p. 97 12. 3.6. Interaction of Tropical Cyclones With Upper-Level Dynamical Structures - p. 129 13. 3.7. Summary - p. 152 14. Chapter 4. Diagnosis of Thermodynamic Environment of Deep Convection - p. 157 15. Chapter 5. Use of Water Vapor Imagery to Assess Numerical Weather Prediction Model Behavior and to Improve Forecasts - p. 223 16. Conclusion - p. 299 17. Appendix A. Radiation Measurements in Water Vapor Absorption Band - p. 301 18. Appendix B. Potential Vorticity Modification Technique and Potential Vorticity Inversion to Correct the Initial State of the Numerical Model - p. 323 19. References - p. 327 20. Glossary - p. 333 21. Index - p. 335
Weather Analysis and Forecasting: Applying Satellite Water Vapor Imagery and Potential Vorticity Analysis, Second Edition, is a step-by-step essential training manual for forecasters in meteorological services worldwide, and a valuable text for graduate students in atmospheric physics and satellite meteorology. In this practical guide, P. Santurette, C.G. Georgiev, and K. Maynard show how to interpret water vapor patterns in terms of dynamical processes in the atmosphere and their relation to diagnostics available from numerical weather prediction models. In particular, they concentrate on the close relationship between satellite imagery and the potential vorticity fields in the upper troposphere and lower stratosphere. These applications are illustrated with color images based on real meteorological situations over mid-latitudes, subtropical and tropical areas.
1. Introduction - p. xv 2. Part 1. Fundamentals - p. xvi 3. Chapter 1. A Dynamical View of Synoptic Development - p. 3 4. Chapter 2. The Interpretation Problem of Satellite Water Vapor Imagery - p. 21 5. Part 2. Practical Use of Water Vapor Imagery and Thermodynamic Fields - p. 51 6. Chapter 3. Significant Water Vapor Imagery Features Associated With Synoptic Thermodynamic Structures - p. 55 7. 3.1. Operational Use of Radiation Measurements in Water Vapor Channels 6.2 and 7.3μm - p. 56 8. 3.2. Interpretation of Synoptic-Scale Imagery Features - p. 57 9. 3.3. Middle- to Upper-Troposphere Wind Field Features - p. 68 10. 3.4. Blocking Regime - p. 91 11. 3.5. Cyclogenesis and Atmospheric Fronts - p. 97 12. 3.6. Interaction of Tropical Cyclones With Upper-Level Dynamical Structures - p. 129 13. 3.7. Summary - p. 152 14. Chapter 4. Diagnosis of Thermodynamic Environment of Deep Convection - p. 157 15. Chapter 5. Use of Water Vapor Imagery to Assess Numerical Weather Prediction Model Behavior and to Improve Forecasts - p. 223 16. Conclusion - p. 299 17. Appendix A. Radiation Measurements in Water Vapor Absorption Band - p. 301 18. Appendix B. Potential Vorticity Modification Technique and Potential Vorticity Inversion to Correct the Initial State of the Numerical Model - p. 323 19. References - p. 327 20. Glossary - p. 333 21. Index - p. 335
