Regional Focus Group Weather and Forecast Discussion Links
Monitoring and Diagnosing the State and Evolution of the Atmosphere
Broadscale Satellite Images
- RAMMB/CIRA Slider (Himawari-8 data)
- RAMMB/CIRA Himawari-8 imagery - contains 4 week image data archive
- Himawari-8 Satellite Viewer (Australian Bureau of Meteorology). Note: this requires fast internet collection and high data allowance.
Tropical Waves
- Monitoring and Prediction of Modes of Coherent Tropical Variability (NOAA Earth System Research Laboratory)
- Madden Julian Oscillation monitoring (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
Streamline Charts
- Gradient Level Wind Analysis (Bureau of Meteorology) 00UTC 12UTC
- Hawaiian Analyses/Forecasts National Weather Service Honolulu HI / NOAA
- 200hPa Wind Analysis (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
Mean Sea Level Pressure Chart
- Mean Sea Level Pressure Analysis (Bureau of Meteorology)
- Mean Sea Level Pressure Analysis - Australian Region (Bureau of Meteorology)
Satellite Rainfall Estimates
- MIMIC-TPW Total Precipitable Water from microwave sensors on polar orbiting satellites
- NOAA OSPO TPW and PCT (Precipitable Water Anomaly)
- TRMM Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission Precipitation Data (NASA)
Microwave Scatterometer Data
Cloud Drift Winds
Global Soundings
Ground-truthing Model Data
Comparing NWP Precipitation Forecasts with TRMM Satellite data
- Windy.com web site (EC and GFS model)
- Natural Earth Site (GFS model) C.Beccario
- NESDIS Operational Blended Rain Rate Product (NOAA)
Forecasts - NWP Output and Products
- Global Tropics Hazards and Benefits Outlook - NOAA Climate Prediction Centre
- Global Model Web site (use FireFox)
- Windy.com web site (EC and GFS model)
- Natural Earth Site (GFS model) C.Beccario
- ACCESS Model Forecasts (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
Useful Reference Links
- Weekly Tropical Climate Note (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
- ENSO and IOD pages (Australian Bureau of Meteorology)
- NRL Tropical Cyclone Page (United States Naval Research Laboratory, Monterrey)
Topics that RAV Forecasters and Stakeholders would like to discuss at future Regional Focus Group meetings - useful references
Tornado development and decay, particularly for F0-F1 tornadoes (note, this could include waterspouts)
- A Tornado and Waterspout Climatology for Greece (Sioutas 2011, Atmospheric Research)
- Waterspouts in the Adriatic, Ionian and Aegean Sea and their meteorological environment (Sioutas et al. 2007, Atmospheric Research)
- An approach to Waterspout Forecasting for South Florida and the Keys (Brown D.P and Rothfluss J. National Weather Service Weather Forecast Office Miami - South Florida, NOAA)
- A Waterspout Forecasting Technique (Szilagyi 2009, 5th European Conference on Severe Storms, Landshut Germany)
Very small Tropical Cyclones and their rapid intensification process
- Intensity Prediction of small tropical cyclones: the great forecast challenge. Joe Courtney, BOM, AOGS 2013
- Environment conditions Prior to Formation of a Midget Tropical Cyclone during TCM-93 (Harr et al. 1996, Monthly Weather Review)
- The 18 June 2000 Midget Tropical Depression over Hong Kong (Leung et al. 2000, Hong Kong Observatory Reprint 417)
Tropical Cyclones developing near the Equator
Using MTSAT rapid scan data for the detection and monitoring of Tropical Cyclones in the early development stage (T number T1-T2)
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