Satellite observations for tropical cyclones
Abstract
Tropical cyclones (TCs) spend most of their time over oceans. Observations of TCs have and will continue to rely primarily on satellite remote sensing observations. This chapter focuses on TCs and the observations made of them by six types of satellite observations in Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite and Polar-orbiting Operational Environmental Satellite (POES) orbits. An hourly evolution of Typhoon Maria (2018) at the Advanced Himawari Imager high horizontal resolution reveals Maria’s structural features. Described next (algorithm and results) are hurricane warm cores in the upper troposphere, retrievable from microwave temperature-sounding channels. Other satellite ...
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