The proper use of Synoptic Data


	Here’s a close-up of the previous picture. You can see that the data is pretty dense having a plot for nearly every six miles.

	As good as this tool is, it too has its problems.
	Quite often the winds will be plotted 180 degrees out from the actual wind direction.
	It seems like the satellite pass rarely goes directly over the system you are interrogating.
	The sensor only accurately measures winds speeds up to about 45 knots.
	I don’t want to get into too much detail with Scatterometry.
	Mr. Edson will have more on Scatterometry in his presentation.