Satellite Meteorology Course 00-1
3 - 13 April 2000
Week One Schedule

Time Monday
3 April  
Tuesday
4 April 
Wednesday
5 April 
Thursday
6 April 
Friday
7 April

0800

to 

1200

 

 

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Class officially
begins @ 8:30AM

Welcome (Byrd/Mostek)

Introduction (Kidder)

Review of NWS
Integrated Sensor Trg. (IST) Program
- IST Professional Development Series (Mostek)


- GOES Status &
Product Assessment
Plan
(Gurka)

Radiation Transfer
(Rabin)

Class begins @
8:00AM for
remainder of course

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

Lab Exercise: 
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-channel Analysis
- 4 April 1997
High Plains Storm

(Moore)

 

 

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

RAMSDIS-X
(Smith/Watson)

Practice Session 
- RAMSDIS-X

GARP & AWIPS
(Kiessling/Page)

Practice Session 
- GARP

Map Discussion Approach followed by Map Discussion (Moore/Mostek)

Radiative Transfer -
cont. (Rabin)

 

Lab Exercise:
Radiative Transfer (Rabin/Kidder)

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

 

Reception

Map Discussion (Moore)

Lab Exercise: 
GOES Image Observation/
Interpretation
(Dostalek)

 

 

Mesoscale Cloud
Climatology
(Gould)

Map Discussion (Moore)

Nowcasting Convection
& Severe Weather
(Weaver)

 

AWIPS Requirements:
GOES Imagery &
Quantitative Products
- Short Course on Satellite Meteorology (Gray)

Satellite-derived Wind Products (Gray)


 

Reception

Map Discussion (Moore)

Planning On-Station
Training
- SatMet Virtual Classroom 

(Moore/Mostek/Kidder)

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

Lab Exercise: Network
Resources & HTML

(Kidder)

 

MidCourse  Review
(Kidder)

Evening

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