Weather satellite images helped in monitoring the volcanic ash cloud from Mount St. Helens and activity from other volcanoes such as Mount Etna. Smoke from fires in the western United States such as Colorado and Utah have also been monitored.
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The final temperature attained by the wetted muslin covered wet bulb thermometer of a psychrometer when thoroughly ventilated.
Weather Satellite: An instrument platform in earth orbit which views the atmosphere with a variety of sensors including visible and infrared cameras.
A weather satellite which travels over both poles each time it orbits the Earth. It orbits about 530 miles (850 km) above the Earth's surface.
An orbiting weather satellite that maintains the same position over the equator during the earth's rotation. Also known as GOES, an acronym for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
Some of the information that is gathered by weather satellites, such as GOES9, includes upper air temperatures and humidity, recording the temperatures of cloud tops, land, and ocean, ...
Polar Orbiting SatelliteA weather satellite which travels over both poles each time it orbits the Earth. It orbits about 530 miles (850 km) above the Earth's surface.
Currently observations are carried on by ships, weather satellites, space shuttle, land and sea based stations in the Pacific as well as thousands of weather stations through-out the world.
Weather satellites commonly carry radiometers, which measure radiation from snow, ice, clouds, and bodies of water.
On April 1, 1960, the nation's first weather satellite, "TIROS I" was launched into orbit. Soon after, meteorologists saw the first pictures of a midlatitude cyclone over the northeastern United States. A new era had begun.
Images taken by a weather satellite that reveal information, such as the flow of water vapor, the movement of frontal system, and the development of a tropical system. Looping individual images aids meteorologists in forecasting.
GEOSTATIONARY SATELLITE An orbiting weather satellite that maintains the same position over the equator during the earth's rotation. Also known as GOES, an acronym for Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite.
meteorological satellite"(Acronym: metsat.) Environmental and weather satellites (such as GOES, Meteosat, GMS, NOAA, DMSP) that carry instruments to remotely sense portions of the electromagnetic spectrum radiated from the earth and the ...
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Water Vapor Imagery - One of the major channels of the operational weather satellites. This channel detects upper level moisture, and can often be diagnosed for upward vertical motion, shortwaves, and potential vorticity.
GOES - Geostationary Orbital Environmental Satellite. A weather satellite in geostationary orbit above the equator at an altitude of about 22,000 miles in space. Very important for weather and tropical meteorology.
Satellite Photo- A photograph of the earth taken by weather satellites that shows areas of cloud.
Saturation- A condition of the atmosphere in which a certain volume of air holds the maximum water vapor it can hold at a specific temperature.
This may be observed from an aircraft flying over a large lake, or even in visible weather satellite imagery. In fact sun glint seen in visible satellite imagery often appears as a large bright region over the tropical ocean areas.
 See also: Weather, Satellite, Meteor, Atmosphere, Surface
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