FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP 

 

FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WINDS WORKSHOP

Saanenmöser, Switzerland, 20-23 October 1998

EUM P 24

ISBN 92-9110-029-3
ISSN 1023-0416

 

INTRODUCTION

 

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Presenter
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Impressum and disclaimer
 
 
 

14 KB
Table of contents  
 

14 KB
Author index  
 

16 KB
Welcome address  
Tillmann Mohr
 

16 KB
Summary  
 

16 KB
List of participants
 
 

41 KB

 

CHAIRPERSONS' REPORTS OF THE SESSIONS

 

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Chairperson
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Session 1:
Current Systems to Derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs)
  Donald Hinsman  

11 KB
Session 2:
Assimilation and Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)
  HansPeter Roesli  

9 KB
Session 3:
Utilisation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors
  John Le Marshall  

12 KB
Session 4:
Space-Borne Wind Retrieval Systems
  R. C. Bhatia  

9 KB
Session 5:
Verification and Objective Quality Analysis
  James Purdom  

9 KB
Session 6:
New Developments and Applications
  Xu Jianmin  

12 KB

 

WORKING GROUP REPORTS

 

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Author/Chairperson
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Working Group 1 Report: Methods   Gary Jedlovec and Xu Jianmin  

12 KB
Working Group 2 Report: Utilisation   John Le Marshall and Graeme Kelly  

15 KB
Working Group 3 Report: Verification and Quality Indices   Christopher S. Velden and Kenneth Holmlund  

13 KB
Annex to Report of WG3:
Co-Location Area for Comparison of Satellite Winds and Radiosondes
 
Masami Tokuno
 

457 KB

 

SESSION 1: Current Systems to Derive Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs)

 

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Authors
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Recent Advances to the Operational GOES Wind Processing System at NESDIS   J.M. Daniels, W. Bresky, C. Velden and S. Wanzong  

1.4 MB
Cloud Motion Winds from FY-2 and GMS-5 Meteorological Satellites   J. Xu, Q. Zhang, X. Fang and J. Liu  

936 KB
Status and Development of Operational Meteosat Wind Products   M. Rattenborg  

53 KB
Improvements in the Method to Extract Operational Cloud Motion Winds and Water Vapor Motion Winds of the GMS-5 System   M. Tokuno  

369 KB
The Current GOES-8 and GOES-9 High Density Winds Operation in NOAA/NESDIS
(Abstract only)
  R. Walter  

8 KB
An Update on UW-CIMSS Satellite-Derived Wind Developments   C. Velden, S. Wanzong and P. Menzel  

29 KB
The Application and Implications of the Use of a Unified BUFR Template for the Exchange of Satellite Derived Wind Data   S.S. Elliott  

41 KB

 

SESSION 2: Assimilation and Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP)

 

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Study of GOES Winds Impact in Eta Data Assimilation System   W.P. Menzel and S.J. Nieman  

108 KB
Satellite-Based Products for Monitoring Weather in South America: Winds and Trajectories   L.A.T. Machado and J.C. Ceballos  

483 KB
Improved Weather Forecasts from the Continuous Generation and Assimilation of High Spatial and Temporal Resolution Winds   J. Le Marshall, N. Pescod, R. Seecamp, C. Spinoso and A. Rea  

370 KB
Impact of Cloud Motion Winds in the ECMWF ERA 15 Reanalyses   P. Kållberg and S. Uppala  

871 KB
Assimilation of Water Vapour Motion Winds in the Global Model of DWD   M. Tomassini, G. Paul and H. Neumeister  

927 KB
Impact of Atmospheric Motion Vectors (AMVs) on the ECMWF System and the Development of a Water Vapour AMV Observation Operator   G. Kelly, R. Munro, M. Rohn and K. Holmlund  

8.0 MB

 

SESSION 3: Utilisation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors

 

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Authors
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Experiments with Atmospheric Motion Vectors at ECMWF   M. Rohn, G. Kelly and R. Saunders  

326 KB
Developing and Non-Developing Tropical Cyclones Revealed by High Density Cloud Motion Winds   J. Xu, X. Fang and Q. Zhang  

1.0 MB
Measure of Divergence at the Top of Tropical Convective Systems from Water Vapor Winds   H. Laurent and M.S. Sakamoto  

953 KB
Interpretation of Structure Displacements within Cloud-Free Water Vapour Scenes of Meteosat   G. Büche, H. Karbstein and H. Fischer  

221 KB
Estimation of Large Scale Wind Fields over Oceanic Areas Around India Using INSAT Derived Cloud Motion Vectors in Conjunction with Ship/Buoy Data and Scatterometer Data
  R.C. Bhatia and K.C. Sai Krishnan  

60 KB
Interest of Trajectories Deduced from Clouds and Water Vapour Motions over the Indian Ocean on Meteosat-5 Images
  A. Szantai, F. Desalmand, M. Desbois and L. Picon  

1.0 MB
Utilization Monitoring of Satellite Tracked Wind Products Transmitted through the MDD System in Developing Countries   G.W. Gitonga  

40 KB

 

SESSION 4: Space Borne Wind Retrieval Systems

 

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Authors
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Satellite Observation of Sea Surface Winds: Navy Research, Applications and Programs
(Abstract only)
  M. Colton  

9 KB
On the Needs, Requirements and Feasibility of a Space-Borne Wind Profiler
  P. Ingmann, A. Stoffelen, L. Isaksen and G.-J. Marseille  

789 KB
On the Use of Scatterometer Winds in NWP   A. Stoffelen, L. Isaksen and D. Le Meur  

112 KB

 

SESSION 5: Verification and Objective Quality Analysis

 

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Authors
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Objective Determination of the Reliability of Satellite-Derived Atmospheric Motion Vectors
  K. Holmlund and C.S. Velden  

594 KB
Sensitivity of the Height Allocation of Thin Cloud Tracers to Errors in Satellite Calibration
  J. Schmetz, A. Arriaga and K. Holmlund  

191 KB
Use, Quality Control and Monitoring of Satellite Winds at UKMO
  P. Butterworth  

471 KB
Monitoring SATOB Products at ECMWF: Availability, Quality Control and Impact
  F. Lalaurette, A. Garcia-Mendez and M. Rohn  

1.8 MB
The Marshall Automated Wind Algorithm: Error Analysis, Quality Control and Climate Applications   G.J. Jedlovec and R.J. Atkinson  

318 KB
New Approach for Height Assignment and Stringent Quality Control Tests for INSAT Derived Cloud Motion Vectors   P.N. Khanna and S. Prasad  

818 KB

 

SESSION 6: New Developments and Applications

 

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Authors
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Atmospheric Motions Derived from Space Based Measurements: A Look to the Near Future
  J.F.W. Purdom  

1.6 MB
Asynchronous Stereo Height and Motion Analysis: Applications   G.G. Campbell  

2.7 MB
Meteosat-5 Winds for the INDOEX Field Experiment   M. Rattenborg and S. Elliott  

13 KB
A Future Product on HRVIS Winds –HRW- from the Meteosat Second Generation -MSG- for the Nowcasting and Other Applications   J.M. Fernández  

1.5 MB
Improved Computing Efficiency of Cross-Correlation in the Fourier Domain   G. Dew and K. Holmlund  

183 KB
Assimilation of Meteosat Radiance Data within the 4DVAR System at ECMWF   R. Munro, G. Kelly, M. Rohn and Roger Saunders  

1.0 MB
Operational Nowcasting Based on Satellite Cloud Motion Winds   J. Scheiber  

434 KB