Satellite And Radar Imagery

Question 1

Respects to satellite imagery, identify the processes causing each significant area or mass of cloud.

Answer 1

Warm and cold fronts
•Jet-streams
•Stable cloud in anticyclones
•Unstable cloud in cyclones
•Orographic lifting caused by hills/mountains

Question 2

Respects to satellite images, identify the likely cloud types and wearther associated with each signficant area of cloud

Answer 2

Unstable areas will have showers
•Stable areas will have clear skies or stratiform drizzle
•Fronts and tropical cyclones will have associated weather, including icing and turbulence

Question 3

Respects to radar imagery, interpret the likely cloud types associated with precipitation echo

Answer 3

Dark blue and above most likely showers from Cb or large cumuliform like TCu
•Yellow is more stable and most likely drizzle in ST
•Very fine drizzle is not picked up by radar
•Easiest to pick up wet hail out of all precipitation types as most reflective to weather radar