Water Vapor Imagery References
- Weldon, R.B. and S.J. Holmes (1991). Water Vapor Imagery: Interpretation and Applications to Weather Analysis and
Forecasting, NOAA Technical Report NESDIS 57,
Washington, DC.
(the quintessential water vapor imagery reference, and the inspiration for this tutorial)
- Bader, M.J., J.R. Grant, A.J. Waters and G.J. Forbes (1995). Images in Weather Forecasting: A Practical Guide for Interpreting Satellite and Radar Imagery, Cambridge University Press, New York.
- Dvorak, V.F. (1984). Tropical Cyclone Intensity Analysis Using Satellite Data, NOAA Tech. Rep. NESDIS 11, NOAA, U.S. Dept. Commerce.
- Menzel, W.P. and J.F.W. Purdom (1994). Introducing GOES-I: The first of a new generation of geostationary operational environmental satellites, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 75, 757-780.
- Morel, P., M. Desbois and G. Szewach (1978). A new insight into the troposphere with the water vapor channel of Meteosat, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 59, 711-714.
- Muller, B.M. and H.E. Fuelberg, (1990). A simulation and diagnostic study of water vapor image dry bands, Mon. Wea. Rev., 118, 705-722.
- Parke, P.S. (ed.) (1993). Satellite Imagery Interpretation for Forecasters, Meteorological Monograph 2-86, Volumes 1-3, National Weather Association, Washington, DC.
- Rao, K.P., S.J. Holmes, R.K. Anderson, J.S. Winston and P.E. Lehor (eds.) (1990). Weather Satellites: Systems, Data, and Environmental Applications, American Meteorological Society, Boston, 503 pp.
- Velden, C.S. (1987). Satellite Observations of Hurricane Elena (1985) Using the VAS 6.7um "Water-Vapor" Channel, Bull. Amer. Meteor. Soc., 68, 210-215.
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