Dynamic Feature Identification: Satellite Imagery: Vort Max

[mikegeukes]

Dynamic Feature Identification from Satellite Imagery:
Vorticity Maxima and Comma Patterns
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/norlat/sat_featu...es/vort_max.htm

Dynamic Feature Identification from Satellite Imagery::
Vorticity Minima and Anticomma Patterns
http://www.meted.ucar.edu/norlat/sat_featu...es/vort_min.htm

Source: COMET

Mike

 

[Jeff Snyder]

LOL I have no idea how they see a few of those vort maxs... I mean, I can "see" them if I look extremely carefully and know exactly where to look (i.e. I've seen the NWP "solution"), but I couldn't spot them w/o any previous knowledge.

 

[Bill Schintler]

RE: Vort max and wave identification

Open the water vapor loop:
http://www.ghcc.msfc.nasa.gov/GOES/goeseas...astconuswv.html

Load a long animation, and then speed it up and stare at it for awhile. Useful features in the mid- and upper-levels, such as vorticity centers and areas of rising motion, should be easily identifiable.

Second to the visible animation, WV loops are your most important Day-1 forecasting tool.

- bill