Monitoring winter marine weather systems using satellite multisensor observations and ground-based data

Satellite and in situ data were examined for insights into the behavior of water vapor, cloud liquid water and wind speed during formation and evolution of synoptic-scale and mesoscale cyclones and cold air outbreaks - weather systems, which are usually accompanied by gale winds and intensive air-sea interaction. Satellite measurements carried out at visible, infrared and microwave ranges were collected over the Northern Pacific and Northern Atlantic Oceans in winter allowed investigating both the large-scale structural features (the main and the secondary fronts, etc.) and the small- and fine- scale details of the frontal boundaries, organized convection in the marine boundary layer of the atmosphere, etc. Multisatellite approach improved temporal resolution and the possibility to trace the location and characteristics of weather systems including fast moving and fast evolving systems.