06/13 14:45 - 16:15 Ellison Caparas Castro
Strong Hurricanes have been damaging livestock and communities. Projecting the path of hurricanes for better forecasting has been successful, however, the strength of the hurricanes are less likely predicted. Hurricane strength had been correlated with lightning activity; with the lightning activity peaking approximately a day before the peak of hurricane strength. Lightning, on the other hand, is related to the electrical activity of a cloud, or storm. This electrical activity has been related to a cloud's behavior; the cloud needs to grow rapidly and reach a height of at least 9 kilometers to produce lightning. In which case, it is possible to forecast hurricane strength by the cloud's growth activity. In this presentation, the reconstruction of three-dimensional models of clouds using DIWATA-1 data will be discussed, along with the methodologies on how to estimate their heights from these models.