A Proposed Scheme for Color Enhancement of Water Vapor Imagery on SWIS

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• Personal Author:
  Ellrod, Gary
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
• Description:
  Water vapor (WV) imagery from the 6.7µ channel on GOES is becoming an increasingly valuable tool for synoptic and even mesoscale analysis of the mid and upper troposphere (Beckman, 1987). Operational use of this tool can be increased by using the animation and color enhancement capabilities of the Satellite Weather Information System (SWIS). Some enhancement techniques have previously heen developed at the WSFOs (e.g., Morris and Field, 1988). This note describes another scheme which highlights some of the most important features: (1) dry zones associated with jet streaks, shortwave troughs and upper level anticyclones, (2) areas of transition in upper level moisture, (3) cirrus clouds and (4) very cold clouds (thunderstorms or very deep multilayered cloud systens).
• Keywords:
  Meteorological Optics Meteorological Satellites Water Vapor, Atmospheric Meteorological Optics Meteorological Satellites Water Vapor, Atmospheric
• Series:
  Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.))   88-19(B)
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• Place as Subject:
  East (U.S.) ; Southern States
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:580912b1ae80329debc580d3569d687b48719e5e7c749dd32f48ad227090c9e463959fa0d17995d7b1d099ef7a97faedf14dc986974a629663fb7eec11e92b61
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