2008/10/09 by Kenneth L. Pryor, Pryor, Kenneth L. · 3 citations
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · Physics and Astronomy · #Atmospheric aerosols and clouds #Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph) #FOS: Physical sciences #Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations #Wind and Air Flow Studies #physics.ao-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.0810.1622
13 pages, 4 figures, preliminary version of paper to be presented at the 16th Conference on Satellite Meteorology and Oceanography; 12 pages, 10 figures; 10 pages, 11 figures, text and figure revisions, final version in American Meteorological Society conference format, figures are available at http://ams.confex.com/ams/89annual/techprogram/paper_147786.htm
openalex publication_date 2008/10/09 · arxiv created 2009/01/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
A suite of products has been developed and evaluated to assess hazards presented by convective downbursts to aircraft in flight derived from the current generation of GOES. The existing suite of GOES microburst products employs the sounder to calculate risk based on conceptual models of favorable environmental profiles for convective downburst generation. Accordingly, a diagnostic nowcasting product, the Microburst Windspeed Potential Index, is designed to infer attributes of a favorable microburst environment. In addition, a GOES-West imager microburst algorithm that employs brightness temperature differences between band 3 (upper level water vapor), band 4 (longwave infrared window), and split window band 5 has been developed to supplement the sounder-derived products. This paper provides an updated assessment of the sounder MWPI and imager microburst algorithms, presents case studies demonstrating effective operational use of the microburst products, and presents validation results for the 2008 convective season over United States Great Plains and Great Basin regions.