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Saturday, 18 May 2024, 2:32 PM
Site: The COMET/MetEd Virtual Classroom
Course: COMET Faculty Multimedia Workshop (Faculty06-1)
Glossary: Satellite Meteorology Resources
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POES coverage

Polar orbiting satellite coverage animation

POES data latency

POES Data Blinds
Delayed data shown in red. New ground stations will eliminate this problem. Data latency will be 2 hours or less.
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Radiative Processes

Lecture notes from Professor Harshvardhan at Purdue University from his Introductory course in 'Survey of Atmospheric Science'
PDF document Introductory_Radiation_Notes_from_Intro_course.pdf

Radiative Transfer Models

 
http://www.crseo.ucsb.edu/esrg/sbdart/
 
http://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/streamer/streamer.html
 
http://stratus.ssec.wisc.edu/caspr/caspr.html
 
http://cprm.acd.ucar.edu/Models/TUV/Interactive_TUV/

Recnent Events and Example Imagery

 
http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/vis/a000000/a003100/a003172/
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Satellite Platforms and Sensor List


U.S. Department of Commerce meteorological satellite sensors --
GOES

U.S. Department of Defense satellite sensors --
DMSP

DOC-DOD satellite sensors --


NASA meteorological satellite instruments --
Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI)
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Technical Specifications and Calibration

  
http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/goes11_blog/GOES-11_Imager_SRFs.gif

three orbit configuration

NPOESS orbits

One of the three satellites will be a European MetOp satellite to provide 6 hourly coverage

Tutorials


Earth Radiation Budget interactive lab
NASA Remote Sensing Tutorial