Satellite View Clouds visualization
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Why do clouds disappear in satellite visualisations as night progresses? They should be visible at all times, regardless of whether there is sunlight or not.
Could the visualisation be improved so that clouds are consistently displayed in the same way at all times?
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In addition, the visualisation with the rainfall radar overlaid does not align with the legend shown, which is displayed in °C rather than, for example, mm/h
Thank you in advance
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@SolariaCC said in Satellite View Clouds visualization:
Why do clouds disappear in satellite visualisations as night progresses? They should be visible at all times, regardless of whether there is sunlight or not.
No, clouds are not visible at night. To see them during the night you can select “infra” (infrared) which show clouds using infrared sensors.
Note that “blue” is mixing the visible spectrum and the infrared spectrum. So it displays clouds at night too even if during the night cloud rendering is not so bright. You are very demanding.In addition, the visualisation with the rainfall radar overlaid does not align with the legend shown, which is displayed in °C rather than, for example, mm/h
You show the Satellite layer and in this layer the temperature is the brightness temperature of the cloud tops showing the altitude of these cloud tops. If you want to see the rain rate, you should select the Radar layer.
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Hi @idefix37
Thank you for the answer.
Infrared imagery does not depict clouds particularly well at night. An example is attached.The clouds are there, so it is a pity not to be able to track them.
Is there any option to create a hybrid or blended view combining cloud visualisation and satellite imagery, so that clouds and precipitation are displayed as accurately as possible at any time of day?
I appreciate that this may be asking a lot; however, these are ultimately suggestions aimed at improving the tool.
Regards
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@SolariaCC said in Satellite View Clouds visualization:
Is there any option to create a hybrid or blended view combining cloud visualisation and satellite imagery, so that clouds and precipitation are displayed as accurately as possible at any time of day?
To my knowledge there is no way to obtain a global visualisation of clouds other than through satellite imagery, in the visible spectrum during the day and in infrared spectrum at night. “Blue” shows blended pictures of these day and night views.
I appreciate that this may be asking a lot
Yes, I think so. Why do you need such high-precision views. Are you conducting scientific research?
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@idefix37 The objective is to enable detailed, real-time monitoring of meteorological conditions for analytical purposes.
This would involve a combined or easily accessible visualisation of wind, cloud cover, precipitation, snowfall and temperature, available at any time of day, and, where possible, complemented by short-term forecasts for the coming hours (for example, extending the current one-hour satellite forecast horizon).