Satellite Meteorology Course 99-2
19 - 29 April 1999
Week One Schedule

Time Monday
19 April  
Tuesday
20 April 
Wednesday
21 April 
Thursday
22 April 
Friday
23 April

0800

to 

1200

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Class officially begins @ 8:30AM

Welcome (Byrd/Mostek)

Introduction (Kidder)

Review of NWS Integrated Sensor Training (IST) Program
- IST Professional Development Series (IST) (Mostek)
- GOES Status & Product Assessment Plan (Gurka)

 

Radiation Transfer (Rabin)

Class begins @ 8:00AM
 throughout remainder 
of course

Meteorological Sounders
- Retrieval Methods
- Soundings & Derived
 Products (Rabin)

Lab Exercicse: 
Soundings/Derived 
Products (Kidder)

GOES Imager Channels
- Spectral Bands
- Enhancements
- Multichannel Applications w/Focus on the Shortwave 
IR Channel (Dostalek)

 

Water Vapor Imagery (Kidder)

 

 

 

Lab Exercise:
Water Vapor Imagery
(Kidder/Mostek)

 

 

 

Class Picture

Case Study I
(Weaver)

 

 

 

Multi-spectral
Analysis of 
Convection (LaDue)

 

Noon to 1pm

 

LUNCH

LUNCH

Special Lunch Seminar:
The Ft. Collins Flood
(Weaver)

LUNCH

1300 

to

1700

Optional Tutorial 
(Begins at 1:30pm)

Workstation 
Orientations

GARP & AWIPS
(Kiessling/Page)

Practice Session 
- GARP

Practice Session 
- AWIPS

RAMSDIS-X
(Smith/Watson)

Practice Session 
- RAMSDIS-X

Map Discussion Approach followed by Map Discuss (Brueske/Mostek)

Radiative Transfer - cont. (Rabin)

 

Lab Exercise: Radiative Transfer (Rabin/Kidder)

 

 

SatMet Virtual Classroom
- Access to COMET Resources (Mostek/Page)

Reception

Map Discussion (Brueske)

Lab Exercise: 
GOES Image Observation/
Interpretation (Dostalek)

 

 

Mesoscale Cloud Climatology
(Gould)

Map Discussion (Brueske)

Nowcasting Convection
& Severe Weather
(Weaver)

 

 

Multi-channel Analysis
- 4 April 1997
High Plains Storm
(Moore)

 

Reception


 Map Discussion (Brueske)

Planning On-Station
Training
- SatMet Virtual Classroom 
(Brueske/Mostek/Kidder)

Satellite Data, Products/
Information on the Net
(Kidder)

Lab Exercise: Network
Resources & HTML
(Kidder)

 

MidCourse  Review
(Kidder)

Evening

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