Identify cloud types and their characteristics
Ivan Smiljanić discusses the differences between tropical and midlatitude storms using various satellite products.
Deep moist convection exhibits distinct characteristics across the tropics and mid-latitudes, reflecting differences in thermodynamic environments, vertical wind shear, and the mechanisms governing storm organisation. This talk compares the genesis, organisation, and dynamics of tropical and mid-latitude convective storms and discusses how these differences influence their monitoring and observation from space-based platforms.
Mirriam Mwende Musyoka talks about monitoring and forecasting convection in the tropics, with a focus on Central and East Africa.
Deep, moist convection is the principal producer of high-impact weather in the tropics and remains one of the most demanding forecast problems in operational forecasting in the tropics. This presentation reviews three interlinked themes. First, the typical seasonal patterns of tropical convection, i.e., the Zonal and meridional migration of the Intertropical Convergence Zone and the resulting monsoonal and bimodal rainfall regimes of equatorial regions, the afternoon-to-evening convective maximum, and the modulation of convective activity by intraseasonal variability such as the Madden–Julian Oscillation. Seasonal tropical cyclone activity in the Indian Ocean basin is also placed within the same framework. Secondly, it examines the major hazards from these convective developments and their impacts. Heavy rainfall and flash flooding, lightning, hail, damaging downdrafts and gust fronts, and visibility-reducing phenomena affect local populations through loss of life, displacement, damage to infrastructure and agriculture, and disruption of surface transport. Third, the presentation reviews the forecasting and nowcasting methods used operationally. The presentation will conclude by discussing how these tools are integrated into early warning services for high-impact weather scenarios.
Maria Putsay discusses convective clouds that form over wildfires, focusing on Pyrocumulonimbus clouds and their detection in satellite imagery.
Pyrocumulonimbus (pyro-Cb) clouds can form above wildfires. These are fire-aided or fire-caused convective clouds with considerable vertical development. Large amounts of smoke particles are injected into these clouds. The increased number of condensation nuclei causes extremely small ice crystals on the cloud tops. That is why the typical colors of these clouds vary in several RGBs. The cloud top color may help to identify pyro-Cb clouds, which might be dangerous by causing extreme low-level winds, and hence increasing fire spread.
This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you are giving forecast for a shipment route that could be affected by a convective event.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you will learn how to use LI data together with ground based measurements.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you will learn how using MTG products can help you recognize convective initiation.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you will learn how to detect fog and low clouds by using FCI products.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you will learn about detection of supercooled droplets which pose a problem for the air traffic.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise you will learn about the improvements in fog & low cloud detection using the new FCI products.
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This mini-module is part of a series of MTG mini modules produced by EUMETSAT/EUMeTrain with the aim of providing quick and useful learning experience about the new satellite products.
In this exercise, you will practise forecasting using numerical models, radar data and different MTG satellite products for severe weather.
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This training module shows the unique challenges that forecasters face when using satellite imagery in high latitude regions. Using a lot of examples and fun exercises, it compares different types of satellites (geostationary, polar) and different generations of satellites as well as benefits and drawbacks of each. It also explains different phenomena that occur in these high latitude regions due to viewing geometry and much more.
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