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Pictures from meteorological satellites and their interpretation

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It can thus be seen that organization in various stages of tropical storm development are frequently seen in satellite pictures. And it appears that further work will establish relationships between the size and organization of the cloud masses with the coarse magnitude of the wind speed in the storm area.

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Fritz, S. Pictures from meteorological satellites and their interpretation. Space Sci Rev 3, 541–580 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00214471

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