Convection
"From this general analysis of the very unstable situation you are not able to forecast when and where thunderstorms will form exactly and which areas they will pass. For this we make a detailed monitoring of the convective cells first of all only from the most basic satellite material which is the IR image in a 15 minutes sequence. Our aim is to find out what we can forecast (nowcast) from a monitoring of cloudiness alone in respect to some locations (cities)."
Basic Info |
Dijon |
Bern |
Zürich |
Bregenz |
Salzburg |
"After all these examples - and there would be many more possible - you should now (as for the frontal case) fill in the table below. It shall give you indication what can be extracted with which certainty for convective cases from this basic satellite material."
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No answer possible, but some hints |
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Formation of Convective Cells |
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Life Cycle of Convective Cells |
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Arrival Time of Convective Cells |
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Low/High/Multilevel cloud |
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Arrival Time of Rain Area |
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Existence of Thunderstorms |
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Arrival Time of Thunderstorms |
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"Let us now examine a case of Fog and Stratus. Follow
this link
to begin!"