Supporting meteorological field experiment missions and postmission analysis with satellite digital data and products

Abstract

In this paper we focus on a good recent example of how multiple satellite-based datasets and products played an important role in supporting a meteorological field experiment: the Tropical Cyclone Structure 2008 (TCS-08) project, part of the much larger The Observing System Research and Predictability Experiment (THORPEX) Pacific Regional Area Campaign (T-PARC) field program, was designed to study tropical cyclones (TCs) in the western North Pacific domain during August and September 2008. The field program (Fig. 1) involved international collaborators and leveraged a special suite of observing resources, including. © 2011 American Meteorological Society.