Education and Training NWA Remote Sensing Committee

The NWA Remote Sensing Committee periodically produces articles for the NWA newsletter describing how to apply various remote sensing products or technologies in the short range prediction of environmental hazards such as heavy precipitation, tropical cyclones, dense fog, or severe storms. This page will provide access to newsletter articles written by committee members, tutorials on various topics, and papers submitted for the undergraduate student MetSat Award.

Introduction to Series of Remote Sensing Committee Training Articles, Wayne MacKenzie (U. of Alabama-Huntsville), October 2006

Satellites

• PLOWS (Profiling of Winter Storms), Jay Martinelli (Creighton U./AFWA)
• Internet Based GIS and Storm Chasing, Michael Stanga (TheWeatherPage.com)
• 17th AMS Satellite Conference Remote Sensing Committee Poster, Ralph Ferraro (NOAA/NESDIS)
• NPP Data and Services, (April 2010), Tom Schott, James Yoe, Geof Goodrum, Jim Silva (NOAA/NESDIS), Stacy Bunin (Noblis)
• 6th GOES Users Conference Summary, (November 2009, Madison, WI), James Gurka, Timothy Schmit (NOAA/NESDIS)
• GOES and CloudSat: GEO/LEO Synergy, Thomas Lee, Christian Kutrescu, Arunas Kuciauskas, Steven Miller (NRL-Monterey), December 2009
• Remote Sensing of Mt. Redoubt Eruptions Gary Ellrod (NOAA-Retired), May 2009 (Expanded version in MS-Word)
• GEOSS: Maximizing the Value of Satellite Remote Sensing for Societal Benefits, Craig Nelson (NOAA Retired), November 2008
• A New Satellite Constellation - Leveraging NPOESS and GOES-R, Craig Nelson (NOAA-retired), Tom Lee (NRL), Jim Gurka and Chris Velden (CIMSS), November 2008
• Remote Sensing and Fire Weather, Brian Motta, June 2008
NPOESS Preparatory Project (NPP): New Products for Research and Operations, Craig Nelson (NOAA-retired) and Tom Lee (NRL-Monterey), May. 2008
• Remote Sensing of the Marine Ecosystem, Chris Brown and Ralph Ferraro , April. 2008
• Forecasting Winter Cyclogenesis, Brian Motta, Jan. 2008
• Routinely Available Snow and Ice Products, Ralph Ferraro, Dec. 2007
• Near-Real Time Remote Sensing of Tropical Cyclones on the Web, Tom Lee (NRL-Monterey), September 2007
• The Hourly GOES Sounder Total Column Ozone Derived Product, Dr. John Knox (U. of Georgia), June 2007
• The Use of GOES Rapid Scan during Severe Weather Events, Wayne MacKenzie, (U. Alabama-Huntsville), May 2007
• Satellite Remote Sensing of Fog and Low Clouds, Gary Ellrod (NOAA-retired), March 2007
• Heavy Precipitation Forecasting Using Microwave Total Precipitable Water (TPW), Thomas Lee (NRL), November 2006
• Collection of links to Hurricane Katrina images, Gary Ellrod (NOAA-retired), September 2006

Radar

• Operational Benefits and Limitations of Radar Refractivity, Dr. Pam Heinselman (NSSL), July 2009
• Super Resolution for the NEXRAD Network, Sebastian Torres, Dr. Pamela Heinselman, Mar. 2009
• The NOAA Hazardous Weather Testbed, Dr. Pamela Heinselman, Steve Weiss, Mike Coniglio, David Andra, Greg Stumpf, Travis Smith, Brenda Philips, and Gerry Brotzge, Sep. 2008
• National Symposium on Latest Developments in Multifunction Phased Array Radar, Dr. Pamela Heinselman, Dec. 2007
• Dual Polarimetric Radar, E. Johnson, Dr. Walter Peterson, C. Schultz (U. Alabama-Huntsville), Oct. 2007
• Phased Array Radar (PAR) Evaluations, Jian Zhang, June 2007
• Plans for Multi-Function Phased Array Radar, Mike Eilts, (WDT Inc.), August 2006

Lightning

• Lightning Detection and Prediction Using Remote Sensing, Dennis Buechler (U. Alabama-Huntsville), July 2007

Profilers, Lidar, GPS

• Improving Forecasting Using Doppler Wind Lidar, Dr. James Yoe, Mar. 2008
• Summary of Global Positioning System (GPS) Integrated Precipitable Water (IPW), Dr. Pablo Santos et al., October 2007
• Global Positioning System Meteorology: Ready to Move into Operations, Dr. Pablo Santos, January 2007

Road Weather

• Remote Sensing and Winter Weather, David Trask (SSI), December 2006

Miscellaneous

• High Resolution Surface Station Network in Severe Weather Forecasting, Michael Stanga and Brandon Bigelbach (St. Cloud State University, MN)
• Display and Visualization of Remote Sensing Data, Wayne MacKenzie (U. Alabama-Huntsville), Jeff Underwood (U. Nevada-Reno), July 2008

Tutorials

• Volcanic ash tutorial, Gary Ellrod (NOAA/NESDIS), 2006 (Updated 2010)
• COMET Resources: Satellite | Radar
  
• Satellite image interpretation Central Institute for Meteorology and Geodynamics, Vienna, Austria

MetSat Award Papers

• 2009 MetSat Winner
• 2008 MetSat Papers
• 2007 MetSat Papers

For more training resources, please go to the NWA Professional Development Committee Web Site

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