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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5637-2024
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https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-5637-2024
© Author(s) 2024. This work is distributed under
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the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Merging TEMPEST microwave and GOES-16 geostationary IR soundings for improved water vapor profiles
Chia-Pang Kuo
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Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
Christian Kummerow
Department of Atmospheric Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 17, 515–538, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-515-2024, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-17-515-2024, 2024
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 7119–7136, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7119-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-7119-2022, 2022
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Vertical profiles of latent heating are derived from GOES-16 to be used in convective initialization. They are compared with other latent heating products derived from NEXRAD and GPM satellites, and the results show that their values are very similar to the radar-derived products. Finally, using latent heating derived from GOES-16 for convective initialization shows improvements in precipitation forecasts, which are comparable to the results using latent heating derived from NEXRAD.
Simon Pfreundschuh, Paula J. Brown, Christian D. Kummerow, Patrick Eriksson, and Teodor Norrestad
Atmos. Meas. Tech., 15, 5033–5060, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5033-2022, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-15-5033-2022, 2022
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Atmos. Meas. Tech. Discuss., https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-97, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-2021-97, 2021
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Latent heating released from phase changes of water is an important factor in driving convection, and thus used in short-term weather forecast models to initiate convection. Typically, radars have been used to retrieve latent heating to be used in the forecast model, but continuous radar data are only available over land. Therefore, this study uses geostationary satellite data to retrieve latent heating so that it can be used to initiate convection in regions where radar data are not available.
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Atmos. Meas. Tech., 14, 2699–2716, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2699-2021, https://doi.org/10.5194/amt-14-2699-2021, 2021
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Short summary
A small satellite about the size of a shoe box, named TEMPEST, carries only a microwave sensor and is designed to measure the water cycle of the Earth from space in an economical way compared with traditional satellites, which have additional infrared sensors. To overcome the limitation, extra infrared signals from GOES-R ABI are combined with TEMPEST microwave measurements. Compared with ground observations, improved humidity information is extracted from the merged TEMPEST and ABI signals.
A small satellite about the size of a shoe box, named TEMPEST, carries only a microwave sensor...