Coverage and Scanning: Pages

  1. How many times each day could you expect a NOAA or DMSP polar satellite to provide coverage over your area?
  2. Which POES satellite provides a greater spatial coverage in the microwave, NOAA or DMSP?
  3. Why do pixels become noticeably larger toward the edges of an AMSU swath and not for an SSM/I swath?
  4. Why do coastlines often appear very blocky or with gaps in the data for POES microwave products?
  5. POES AMSU and SSM/I instruments detect atmospheric, cloud, and surface features in what portions of the electromagnetic spectrum?
  6. "Passive" observation of microwave radiation provides for what unique capabilities?
  7. What physical processes allow brightness temperature observations at different microwave frequencies to be converted into quantitative products such as TPW, rain rate, and CLW?
  8. Identify those atmospheric products currently generated for both AMSU and SSM/I imagery.
  9. Identify those surface products currently generated for both AMSU and SSM/I imagery.
  10. Why are certain atmospheric products like TPW, CLW, and surface wind speed only retrieved over ocean surfaces?
  11. What benefits do microwave observations offer to the mix of GOES, conventional in situ, and numerical modeling data?