Gulf of Alaska Cyclone in Daytime Microphysics RGB Imagery

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• Journal Title:
  Journal of Operational Meteorology
• Personal Author:
  Lawson, Michael T. ; Fuell, Kevin K.
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service)
• Description:
  The NASA Short-term Prediction Research and Transition (SPoRT) Center has provided National Weather Service (NWS) Alaska Region forecasters with the experimental Daytime Microphysics (DtMicro) red-green-blue (RGB) product to support forecasting aviation hazards (Berndt et al. 2017), which has become an integral tool in the forecast process. On 11 March 2018, a rapidly deepening cyclone entered the Gulf of Alaska and developed gale-force winds and relatively strong convection for late winter, while lowlevel clouds and fog remained in its wake. The multispectral DtMicro RGB (Rosenfeld and Lensky 1998; EUMETSAT User Service Division 2009) provided an efficient product to analyze cloud properties and surface features with improved efficiency compared to single-channel visible or infrared imagery.
• Keywords:
  Atmospheric Science Computers In Earth Sciences Management Science And Operations Research Computers In Earth Sciences Management Science And Operations Research Computers In Earth Sciences Management Science And Operations Research
• Source:
  Journal of Operational Meteorology (2019)
• DOI:
  https://doi.org/10.15191/nwajom.2019.0703
• ISSN:
  2325-6184
• Format:
  PDF
• Publisher:
  National Weather Association
• Document Type:
  Journal Article
• Rights Information:
  Other
• Compliance:
  Library
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