Year: 2007 Language: english Author: R. R. Kelkar Genre: Manual Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 267 Description: Today, satellite images of the world's weather, animated sequences of tropical storms, 5-day weather forecasts, are are widely available and anyone, not just meteorologists, can access the latest images scanned by meteorological satellites around the world. The fascinating origin of satellite meteorology as an independent branch of the science of meteorology is the result of an interplay of science on one hand, and the technology of satellites, computers and communications on the other. Prior to the satellite era, meteorologists had laid the greatest emphasis on atmospheric pressure. Lows and highs showing up in synoptic isobaric analysis were of their main interest. With the availability of satellite images, however, the accent shifted to observing and examining clouds and cloud patterns in the imagery, from which the state of the atmosphere could be directly observed or inferred. Images received from geostationary and orbiting satellites together revealed the presence of a wide spectrum of atmospheric phenomena across individual cumulus cells,thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and jet streams, just at a glance. The greatest help from weather satellites comes in observing weather over oceans, mountains, deserts, and unpopulated places where conventional data is either sparse or just unavailable. The present book traces satellite meteorology history, describes the current state of art, and envisions its potential and possibilities.
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Satellite Meteorology
Language: english
Author: R. R. Kelkar
Genre: Manual
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 267
Description: Today, satellite images of the world's weather, animated sequences of tropical storms, 5-day weather forecasts, are are widely available and anyone, not just meteorologists, can access the latest images scanned by meteorological satellites around the world. The fascinating origin of satellite meteorology as an independent branch of the science of meteorology is the result of an interplay of science on one hand, and the technology of satellites, computers and communications on the other.
Prior to the satellite era, meteorologists had laid the greatest emphasis on atmospheric pressure. Lows and highs showing up in synoptic isobaric analysis were of their main interest. With the availability of satellite images, however, the accent shifted to observing and examining clouds and cloud patterns in the imagery, from which the state of the atmosphere could be directly observed or inferred. Images received from geostationary and orbiting satellites together revealed the presence of a wide spectrum of atmospheric phenomena across individual cumulus cells,thunderstorms, tropical cyclones and jet streams, just at a glance. The greatest help from weather satellites comes in observing weather over oceans, mountains, deserts, and unpopulated places where conventional data is either sparse or just unavailable.
The present book traces satellite meteorology history, describes the current state of art, and envisions its potential and possibilities.
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