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Evaluation Of Satellite-Derived Objective Potential Index For Oceanic Cloud System During The Mei-Yu Period, Chung-Chih Liu, Gin-Rong Liu, Chun-Chieh Chao, Da-Gang Pan, Ji-En Li

Journal of Marine Science and Technology

Many mesoscale convective systems (MCSs) accompanied by heavy rainfall are frequently observed over the Taiwan Strait along the Mei-Yu front. An objective potential index of air-sea interaction was proposed by employing satellite data for pointing out areas where oceanic convective clouds may occur and develop into MCSs [11]. The aim of present research is to evaluate that index through the data of 2001 and 2002. The results show that a greater objective potential index is correlated with a larger probability of colder infrared brightness temperature. In addition, the analysis of serial correlation for these two discrete parameters (objective potential index …