A simplified method for the detection of convection using high-resolution imagery from GOES-16

Lee, Yoonjin; Kummerow, Christian D.; Zupanski, Milija

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3755-2021

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3755-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-3755-2021

© Author(s) 2021. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 5

Research article

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25 May 2021

Research article |

| 25 May 2021

A simplified method for the detection of convection using high-resolution imagery from GOES-16

Yoonjin Lee, Christian D. Kummerow, and Milija Zupanski

Data sets

NOAA Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) Level 2 Base Data NOAA National Weather Service (NWS) Radar Operations Center https://doi.org/10.7289/V5W9574V

MRMS datasets IEM Mtarchive http://mtarchive.geol.iastate.edu/

Short summary

This study suggests two methods to detect convection using 1 min data from GOES-16: one method detects early convective clouds using their vertical growth rate and the other method detects mature convective clouds using their lumpy cloud top surfaces. Applying the two methods to 1-month data showed that the accuracy of the combined methods was 85.8 % and showed their potential to be used in regions where radar data are not available.