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radar-satellite-analysis
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Interpret weather radar and satellite observations by validating product metadata and geometry, deriving storm and cloud structures, tracking evolution, and quantifying uncertainty.
When to use
- Interpret NEXRAD reflectivity, velocity, spectrum width, or multi-moment
- Track storm growth, decay, splits, mergers, rotation, anvils, or cloud-top
- Analyze GOES visible, infrared, water-vapor, or derived cloud and convection
- Combine radar structure with satellite cloud-top evidence while preserving
- Produce a short-term precipitation or severe-weather nowcast from a sequence
- Explain why a radar or satellite feature is—or is not—supported by the data.
When not to use
- Radar and satellite products are remote-sensing observations with sampling,
- A single product cannot uniquely identify every convective or microphysical
- Historical gaps, instrument outages, scan strategy changes, and provider
- This skill does not retrieve products, perform numerical model comparison, or
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