Limitation of Operationally Available Infrared SMS-1 Satellite Imagery in Thunderstorm Detection

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• Personal Author:
  Dorr, Russell A.
• Corporate Authors:
  United States. National Weather Service. Eastern Region
• NOAA Program & Office:
  NWS (National Weather Service) ; ER (Eastern Region)
• Description:
  Satellite pictures, especially when used together with radar information and surface observations, have been very useful in identifying areas of thunder- storm activity. There are, however, times that thunderstorms occur and yet are not detected by radar or even suspected from information in infrared (IR) satellite pictures. This paper illustrates one such case. In this case the thunderstorms had low tops and occurred in cold unstable polar air behind a cold front and ahead of an upper level trough.
• Keywords:
  Artificial Satellites In Meteorological Optics Evaluation Thunderstorm Forecasting Thunderstorm Forecasting
• Series:
  Eastern Region technical attachment (National Weather Service (U.S.))   75-4-28
• Format:
  pdf
• Document Type:
  Technical Attachment
• Place as Subject:
  East (U.S.)
• License:
  https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
• Rights Information:
  CC0 Public Domain
• Compliance:
  Submitted
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:28ca70a4203ca06daf72fc2eb38ded58ab096cbc2f719ab361a53ca929e913b21b17594aacf28c5465a8b38ee36e5fbfb3b109d11136d6a6420cbb0dfd3ffa84
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  https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/70694/noaa_70694_DS1.pdf
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