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Estimation of Atmospheric Motion Vectors from Kalpana-1 Imagers

2009; American Meteorological Society; Volume: 48; Issue: 11 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1175/2009jamc2159.1

1558-8432

C. M. Kishtawal, S. K. Deb, P. K. Pal, P. C. Joshi,

Climate variability and models

Abstract The estimation of atmospheric motion vectors from infrared and water vapor channels on the geostationary operational Indian National Satellite System Kalpana-1 has been attempted here. An empirical height assignment technique based on a genetic algorithm is used to determine the height of cloud and water vapor tracers. The cloud-motion-vector (CMV) winds at high and midlevels and water vapor winds (WVW) derived from Kalpana-1 show a very close resemblance to the corresponding Meteosat-7 winds derived at the European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites when both are compared separately with radiosonde data. The 3-month mean vector difference (MVD) of high- and midlevel CMV and WVW winds derived from Kalpana-1 is very close to that of Meteosat-7 winds, when both are compared with radiosonde. When comparing with radiosonde, the low-level CMVs from Kalpana-1 have a higher MVD value than that of Meteosat-7. This may be due to the difference in spatial resolutions of Kalpana-1 and Meteosat-7.