Satellite
Orientation Pages

Welcome Letter

The Instructors

Initial Instructions

 Logistical
Information Homepage

Participant Questionnaire

Prerequisites

Course Overview

Course Goals

Course Components

Teaching Laboratory

Course Outline

Reference List

Satellite Meteorology Orientation Manual

Course Components

The Satellite Meteorology Course, which is taught at the graduate level to experienced operational forecasters, has five major components:

1. Presentations by the Co-Lead Instructors and visiting instructors that introduce the course material;



2. Case studies that provide a mechanism for applying much of the course's subject matter;



3. Seminars covering special topics that are taught by visitors from across the country, who are experts in either the operational and/or research communities;



4. Daily discussions of current weather that allow group interaction and identification of interesting forecast problems in real-time;



5. Lectures and discussion of the applied process that illustrate to participants how they might lead forecast technique development at their forecast office.

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