Australian Examples (including Antarctica)

Severe Thunderstorms / Heavy Rainfall

• Darwin thunderstorm case study, 7 November 2005: utilising time-lapse video camera imagery for teaching purposes
• Severe Convection, SE Queensland Australia 30 October 2018
• Severe Convection, SE Queensland Australia 29 October 2018
• Mid level convection and lightning, Queensland Australia 1 July 2018
• Cold Front and associated rainfall, Victoria and South Australia 2-3 May 2018
• Heavy Rainfall over the Melbourne area, Victoria, 7 December 2017
• Rapidly developing thunderstorms, western Victoria, 23 November 2017
• “Severe Thunderstorm Signatures in Satellite Imagery”, an Australian perspective by Geoff Feren (November 2012) - Victorian Regional Office

Fog

• Case studies comparing various Night Microphysics RGB composites including the WARO tuned version
• Gippsland Eddy, 22nd November 2017
• Satellite identification of Fog over Southern Australia - COMET module

Fires / Smoke

• NT/QLD fire / smoke and seabreeze front interaction 23 September 2018, comparing RGB products and NWP
• VIC fire case study 28th February 2018, comparing RGB products
• NSW fire case study 18th January 2018, comparison of Rayleigh corrected and uncorrected True Colour RGB products
• Case Study: GOME-2 observes Australian fires (7 February 2009) - from Eumetsat

Blowing dust

• Mildura dust storm (haboob) event of 7th May 2019. Comparing various satellite, observation and NWP data for monitoring the dust
• The Nullarbor thin dust event of 18th March 2019: examination of various satellite products and surface observations
• Examination of the JMA True Colour Reproduction (TCR) imagery and comparison with existing BOM True Colour RGB imagery, Australian Dust Storm 14th February 2019
• Dust event SE Australia 21-22nd November 2018. Detection using the Dust RGB product
• VIIRS data and detection of smoke and blowing dust over Eastern Australia - COMET module
• Red dust storm in Australia - from Japan Meteorological Agency

Volcanic Eruption

• Meteosat-9 observes Chilean volcanic eruption (4 June to 1 July 2011) - from Eumetsat

Antarctic (Katabatic winds)

• Katabatic winds over Antarctica (27 May 2008) – from Eumetsat

Antarctic (Ozone hole)

• Metop – A satellite measures ozone hole over the Antarctic (September-December 2007) – from Eumetsat

Miscellaneous

• Evaluating various MODIS Aqua and Terra and Himawari-8 satellite products in monitoring the Kati Thanda - Lake Eyre floods, 30th March to 11 April 2019
• Examination of the JMA True Colour Reproduction (TCR) imagery and comparison with existing BOM True Colour RGB imagery, Australian Dust Storm 14th February 2019
• Examination of the JMA True Colour Reproduction (TCR) imagery and comparison with existing BOM True Colour RGB imagery, Australia 4th February 2019
• Concentric dissipation of stratocumulus cloud in the vicinity of King Island, Bass Strait 7th January 2019
• Day/Night transition as captured by RGB products as rendered by different viewers