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Satellite imagery is key in monitoring weather and in ATMS 120: Severe and Hazardous Weather, students are taught to interpret and use satellite imagery to study things like hurricanes, Supercells, blizzards and El Niño. Since the middle part of the last century, satellite imagery has provided large scale aerial coverage of clouds across earth and has revolutionized our understanding of the behavior of all types of weather systems. However, nearly all satellite imagery is two dimensional and typically shows either the brightness of the reflected sunlight or emitted infrared temperature of a cloud or the surface of the Earth. In 1999, a new satellite instrument named MISR (Multiangle Imaging SpectroRadiometer) was launched, which was designed to view the earth at 9 different view angles nearly simultaneously. MISR offered, for the first time, regular viewing of clouds in 3-D. This talk will feature imagery from MISR as well as how I use the imagery in the classroom to teach about clouds.

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