Cloud patterns expose wind fields
Competency Framework
WMO Satellite Skills
Application
Description
HansPeter Roesli illustrated the impact of wind on clouds by examples taken from satellite imagery.
Content
Vertical and horizontal winds in a moist airmass may generate characteristic cloud patterns. Vice versa specific cloud patterns expose the wind fields behind the scene. The talk illustrates this interplay with imagery from data of operational sun-synchronous and geo-synchronous imaging satellites. It shows cases like gravity waves, undular bores, haboobs, ship tracks or stack plumes.