What is it about?
The 3D thermal structures of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria, including those beneath clouds, are observable to microwave temperature sounders on NOAA satellites, including NOAA-15, -18, -19, and S-NPP.
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Why is it important?
The 3D thermal structures of Hurricanes Harvey, Irma, and Maria are better resolved temporally, which helps the community to understand the interval structural evolutions in these and future events. For example, diurnal variations of the warm cores are found with these observations combined.
Perspectives
The microwave temperature sounders on meteorological satellites have been around for a while. They have their unique strength in terms of observing weather signals even those beneath clouds. A lot of their values still need to be uncovered in order to help us better understand hurricanes/typhoons.
Xiaoxu Tian
Earth System Science Interdisciplinary Center
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This page is a summary of: Capturing Size and Intensity Changes of Hurricanes Irma and Maria (2017) from Polar-orbiting Satellite Microwave Radiometers, Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences, May 2018, American Meteorological Society,
DOI: 10.1175/jas-d-17-0315.1.
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