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AMV Derivation:
Atmospheric motion vectors are derived from sequences of satellite images.
Various channels can be used to calculate wind vectors at different atmospheric
levels. The wind vectors can be used qualitatively by TC forecasters help visualize
the wind field around TCs, as well as quantitatively within numerical weather
prediction (NWP) models. Atmospheric analysis products, such as wind shear,
vorticity, and convergence, can be also be derived from these wind fields.
Analysis and Products:
AMV are extracted automatically every 3 hours from GOES, METEOSAT, and MTSAT data
producing near real-time wind fields and the related atmospheric analysis
products over all basins - NE/SE/NW Pacific, North Atlantic, East Atlantic and
Africa, Indian and W/E Australia.
Link to real-time products here.
Other AMV Projects:
• Height-resolved winds from GOES Sounder and Simulated Hyper-spectral data
• GOES-R Advanced Based Imager (ABI) AMV retrieval algorithm
• Member of the International Satellite Winds Working Group (IWWG)
Go to IWWG Homepage
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