By R R Kelkar
Satellite Meteorology is the youngest and quickest becoming department of the technological know-how of meteorology and the current e-book strains its interesting background, describes the present country of artwork, and envisions its capability and chances. the decade has witnessed an important development within the accuracy of brief and medium variety climate forecasting across the world, quite within the tropics. Numerical climate prediction versions appear to be taking on from synoptic meteorologists and will also be doing larger. With the help of excessive strength pcs, numerical versions have certainly turn into subtle and hugely able. besides the fact that, it truly is indisputable that their fresh good fortune has been principally as a result genuine time assimilation of satellite tv for pc facts and items. opposed to the backdrop of those advancements, revision of satellite tv for pc Meteorology had develop into late. the second one version keeps the fundamental constitution and magnificence of prior variation however the up-to-date content material displays extra realistically the nation of artwork during this ever-evolving box of technology and expertise. It contains the newest actual and technical info, study effects and references to the newest publications.
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Oceans, rivers, lakes and small water bodies can be easily identified as dark areas. However, snow cover and bright clouds may be difficult to differentiate. Cloud-free land regions appear in various shades of gray depending upon the type of soil and vegetation. Because of the larger amplitude of the diurnal cycle of temperature over land than over sea, coastlines show up clearly in IR images only when there is strong contrast between land and sea surface temperatures. They may not be recognizable at those hours when there is no temperature contrast.
A poor navigation also shows up as a mismatch between the superimposed grid and the geographical features on the image. Navigation errors may result in image distortions in various forms such as a vertical compression or expansion of the image, non-vertical alignment of the north and south poles, and multiple representations or omissions of image pixels. 7 INSAT, METSAT and Kalpana Satellites The evolution of the Indian space programme and its meteorological component has been described in many reviews (Kelkar 1994, Pandey et al 1994, Joshi et al 2003).
So in WV imagery, the brighter regions are those with high upper tropospheric humidity and the dark regions are those where the upper troposphere is very dry. While in IR imagery, the brightness of a pixel depends upon its temperature, there is no such simple relationship between moisture and brightness for a WV image as. 3). l~) channel. Generally speaking, WV images have a different appearance from that of VIS and IR images. 2). Cloud patterns which appear distinct from each other in the VIS and IR images can be recognized as being a part of the same air mass in corresponding WV images.