Satellite-based monitoring and prediction of tropical cyclone intensity and movement

Authors

  • R. R. KELKAR

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.54302/mausam.v48i2.3965

Keywords:

Satellite-based techniques, Intensity estimation, Track prediction, Wind fields

Abstract

 

 

ABSTRACT. Capabilities of meteorological satellites have gone a long way in meeting requirements of synoptic analysis and forecasting of tropical cyclones. This paper shows the impact made by the satellite data in the intensity estimation and track prediction of tropical cyclones in the Indian Seas and also reviews the universally applied Dvorak algorithm for performing tropical cyclone intensity analysis.

Extensive use of Dvorak's intensity estimation scheme has revealed many of its limitations and elements of subjectivity in the analysis of tropical cyclones over the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal, which, like cyclones in other ocean basins, also exhibit wide structural variability as seen in the satellite imagery.

Satellite-based cyclone tracking techniques include: (i) use of satellite-derived mean wind flow,             (ii) animation of sequence of satellite images and extrapolation of the apparent motion of the cloud system and (iii) monitoring changes in the upper level moisture patterns in the water vapour absorption channel imagery.

Satellite-based techniques on tropical cyclone intensity estimation and track prediction have led to very significant improvement in disaster warning and consequent saving of life and property.

 

 

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Published

01-04-1997

How to Cite

[1]
R. R. KELKAR, “Satellite-based monitoring and prediction of tropical cyclone intensity and movement”, MAUSAM, vol. 48, no. 2, pp. 157–168, Apr. 1997.

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