Lesson 1
Meteorological Satellite Orbits
Lesson 2
Review of Radiative Transfer
Lesson 3
Visible Image Interpretation
Lesson 4
Infrared Image Interpretation
Lesson 5
Multispectral Image Interpretation
Lesson 6
Fires & Aerosols
Lesson 7
Winds
Lesson 8
Sounders
Lesson 9
Fog and Stratus
Lesson 10
Thunderstorm
Lesson 11
Energy Budget
Lesson 12
Hurricanes
Lesson 13
Global Circulation
Lesson 14
Synoptic Scale
Lesson 15
Local Circulation
Lesson 16
Satellite Oceanography
Lesson 17
Precipitation

AOS445 Satellite Meteorology


Information for Spring 2004.

Information for Spring 2002.

This course is taught by Steve Ackerman as part of the University of Wisconsin's Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences department courses.

Tom Whittaker has written the applets that support this course.

Scott Bachmeier is curator of the GOES gallery, some of the descriptions he has collected can be found in this course.

Sarah Finn helped write much of the html for this first version.

Most of the satellite images have been generted with McIDAS. You can get a smaller version of McIDAS for free at the following URL:



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