Training Session: Satellite Applications on Tropical Cyclones

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Training Session: Satellite Applications on Tropical Cyclones NOAA/NESDIS ORA/CORP/RAMM CIRA / Fort Collins, CO

Outline Tracking and Intensity Short Range Forecasting Structure

Tracking and Intensity Center location (fixing) Intensity estimates Short Range Forecasting Intensity Current trends Vertical Shear (Assymetry) Sea-surface Temperature “Rapid” Intensification Super Rapid Scan Images (SRSO) SAL (Saharan Air Layer) – LW difference images Track Water vapor image applications / Recurvature Unsmoothed tracks (oscillations and wobbles) Structure Outer Winds Pressure-wind relationship Surface Wind Analysis (RMW, Size) Subtropical Cyclones – Subtropical Transition Hybrid Tropical Cyclones Upper-level forcing - Subtropical Midgets Monsoon Depressions Extratropical Transition Landfall

SATELLITE DATA TYPES: Geostationary: Microwave sounder (AMSU) IR VIS/Ch2 WV Split window Microwave sounder (AMSU) Microwave images Satellite winds Scatterometer winds (also Windsat) Microwave winds (old SSMI algorithm) SST images High resolution multispectral images MODIS AVHRR DMSP OLS MSG Super Rapid-scan Operations (SRSO) (1-min interval)

Tracking and Intensity Center location (fixing) Intensity estimates

Center location (fixing) Center Location = surface center Center of circulation Lowest sea-level pressure Visible and IR methods – Dvorak Eye Distinct and inferred center with shear pattern and low-level clouds Spiral bands and curved cloud lines Wedge method Using animation Low-level cloud motions Deep layer cloud motions Ignore cirrus layer cloud motions Mid-level centers tilted from surface center Using microwave images Thick cirrus clouds in visible and IR images obscure features below, used for center location Thick cirrus clouds in microwave images are more transparent, and the microwave images may often provide better views of features, for improved center locations Using scatterometer winds Problems encountered with cyclogenesis and early stages

Center Location Center Location = surface center Center of circulation Lowest sea-level pressure Visible and IR methods – Dvorak Eye Distinct and inferred center with shear pattern and low-level clouds Spiral bands and curved cloud lines Wedge method

Center Location Using animation Low-level cloud motions Deep layer cloud motions Ignore cirrus layer cloud motions Mid-level centers tilted from surface center

Center Location Using microwave images Using scatterometer winds Thick cirrus clouds in visible and IR images obscure features below, used for center location Thick cirrus clouds in microwave images are more transparent, and the microwave images may often provide better views of features, for improved center locations Using scatterometer winds Problems encountered with cyclogenesis and early stages

Intensity Estimates Dvorak Technique Objective Dvorak Technique Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) Using scatterometer winds Other (low-level cloud motion vectors, microwave wind algorithms, in situ obs)

Tropical Cyclone Intensity Intensity: highest surface wind speed U.S. policy: 10-m, 1-min wind to nearest 5-knots (knot = n.mi./h, 60 n.mi. = 70 mi. = 111 km = 1 deg lat, 1 m/s = 1.946 knots) Alternate indicator of intensity is the central pressure, or minimum sea-level pressure (MSLP) in hPa (mb)

Dvorak Technique The Dvorak technique uses patterns and measurements from satellite imagery to estimate the strength of a tropical cyclone. Four basic types Curved band pattern Shear pattern CDO pattern Eye pattern

Dvorak Technique Uses patterns and measurements as seen on satellite imagery to assign a number (T number) representative of the cyclone’s strength. The T number scale runs from 0 to 8 in increments of 0.5.

Dvorak Technique

Objective Dvorak Technique Original version – Dvorak (1984) – “analysis using digital IR data” Velden, Olander, Zehr (1998) – ODT Computation used for hurricane intensities remains essentially unchanged What is it? – Two IR temperature measurements, given a center location

Two IR temperature measurements 1) Surrounding temperature – Warmest pixel from those located on r=55 km circle 2) Eye temperature – Warmest pixel within the eye Table assigns intensity to nearest 0.1 T-No. Intensity increases as Surrounding T gets colder and as the Eye T gets warmer.

ODT - Improvements Multi-radius computations of “surrounding temperature” Time averaging (6-h running mean) of frequent (30-min) interval computations Limits on rate of weakening New computations for weak (pre-hurricane) intensities

Advanced Microwave Sounding Unit (AMSU) Vertical temperature profiles retrieved from the AMSU multispectral radiances, give a 3-D measurement of the tropical cyclone warm core Refinements to measurements of the warm core provide intensity estimates

Scatterometer winds Surface wind vectors from the scatterometer at about 25 km resolution provide limited information for intensity estimates The scatterometer wind speeds are not representative above minimal hurricane force, and give erroneously high winds in heavy rain areas

Low-level cloud motion vectors 0.8 x (low-level sat wind speed) = Surface wind speed estimate

Short Range Forecasting Intensity Current trends Vertical Shear (Assymetry) Detection of “Rapid” Intensification SAL (Saharan Air Layer) – LW difference images Track Water vapor image applications / Recurvature Unsmoothed tracks (oscillations and wobbles)

Intensity Trends Short-term changes in satellite images following Dvorak intensity measurements Recognizing peak intensity Short range intensity forecasts often based on current trends shown in images

Vertical Shear Intensity changes are often due to: Vertical wind shear of the environmental deep layer in which the tropical cyclone circulation is embedded The direction and magnitude of the vertical shear is indicated by the deep cloud and cirrus asymetry with respect to the TC center Vertical shear is quantified by the vertical profile of the wind averaged over a large TC centered circle. The vector difference of wind at different levels is the vertical shear.

Sea Surface Temperature (SST) The SST encountered by a TC can be important to the intensity forecast SSTs provide an upper bound on intensity Ocean heat content (OHC) is important in the same way, particularly for slow moving TCs that will mix out the shallow water measured by the SST Satellite data is essential for timely and accurate analyses of SST and OHC

Rapid Intensification Most large errors in intensity forecasts are due to “rapid intensification” events Rapid intensification occurs in low vertical shear environments over very warm oceans Satellite image characteristics associated with rapid intensification

Super Rapid-scan Operations (SRSO) Animations of 1-minute interval visible images Comparison with 30-minute interval Meso-vortices within the hurricane eye

SAL (Saharan Air Layer) The SAL is often observed in association with dust that is transported large distances across the Atlantic from its source region in Africa The SAL is characterized by very dry mid-level air and a stable air layer The SAL inhibits deep convection and TC development The long wave IR difference can be displayed as an image product to track the SAL

Water vapor images Tropical cyclones track according to the deep layer mean wind Water vapor images depict upper level cloud motions, and mid-level motions in cloud free areas Features that force abrupt changes in TC track are often identified in water vapor images

Track oscillations and wobbles Hurricanes with well defined eyes can be very accurately tracked with satellite images The center may exhibit short term oscillations or wobbles about the track representing the longer term motion Center relative animated images are useful in depicting short term motion

Structure Outer Winds (Size) Pressure-wind relationship Surface Wind Analysis (RMW, Size) Subtropical Cyclones – Subtropical Transition Hybrid Tropical Cyclones Upper-level forcing - Subtropical Midgets Monsoon Depressions Extratropical Transition Landfall

Outer Winds The TC maximum winds are usually 10-75 km from the center. The outer winds generally decrease away from the center but are not well related to the maximum TC size can be very different and has important implications TC size Radius of gale force (34 kt / 17.5 m/s) winds Outer closed isobar Radius of zero tangential wind

Pressure-wind relationship Central pressure, i.e. minimum sea-level pressure (MSLP) is well correlated with maximum surface wind speed (Vmax) An average pressure-wind relationship is used to assign intensity as MSLP and Vmax, in the absence of additional observations, such as aircraft data.

Pressure-wind relationship Aircraft observations reveal deviations from the average pressure-wind relationship Environmental and structure characteristics influence the pressure wind relationship Environmental pressure Latitude Size Intensity trend TC Motion Radius of Maximum Wind Landfall

Surface Wind Analysis The main objectives of operational tropical cyclone satellite applications have been primarily…. center location and 2) intensity estimate -- With today’s improved satellite data… Those two objectives can be incorporated into a satellite-derived surface wind analysis, that portrays additional useful information.

Surface Wind Analysis Isotachs and streamlines depict: 1) Intensity (Vmax) 2) Location of Vmax 3) Center (wind speed minimum) 4) Size (radial extent of strong winds) 5) Asymmetry of wind field

Subtropical Cyclones Definition: A non-frontal low pressure system that has characteristics of both tropical and extratropical cyclones Definition: a manifestation of “cut-off low” at the surface definition -- cut-off low -- cold low displaced equatorward of westerly flow

Transition from Subtropical A few Tropical Cyclones originate from subtropical cyclones A few Subtropical Cyclones maintain subtropical characteristics but intensify to produce Storm Force winds (> 34 kt) (Subtropical Storm) During transition, a “hybrid” tropical storm has characteristics of both types

Hybrid Tropical Cyclones The term “hybrid” is used to refer to a tropical cyclone that has originated not solely from “latent heat release” with a typical pre-existing tropical disturbance. This may involve baroclinic processes, as with extratropical cyclones, subtropical lows, etc. Other tropical weather systems have been identified which may at times resemble or evolve into a “hybrid” cyclone Monsoon Depressions West African Cyclones Arabian Sea Cyclones Midget Tropical Cyclones

Extratropical Transition A term used in advisories and tropical summaries to indicate that a cyclone has lost its "tropical" characteristics. The term implies both poleward displacement of the cyclone and the conversion of the cyclone's primary energy source from the release of latent heat of condensation to baroclinic (the temperature contrast between warm and cold air masses) processes. It is important to note that cyclones can become extratropical and still retain wind of hurricane or tropical storm force.

Landfall Wind speeds decrease when a tropical cyclone moves over a land mass. This is due both to the reduced latent and sensible heat transfer from the land compared to the ocean, and the additional friction from the land surface.