A major weather-producing event in September 1978 over southeastern Australia is studied with an emphasis on the use of imagery from the Japanese Geostationary Meteorological Satellite. The synoptic scale is examined using imagery at 12-hourly intervals, and the results suggest that the GMS data base could be used to establish useful variations of the interpretation models pioneered by Guymer (1969, 1978). On the mesoscale, a thunderstorm complex is examined using 'special' once-hourly GMS imagery, and the general problems of interrelating radar imagery, satellite imagery and rainfall rates are addressed. A potentially useful 'cloud top temperature-rainfall rate' relationship is established for convective cloud in a southwesterly stream over Victoria. The hourly GMS imagery highlights the utility of such data for short term warning of damage associated with deep convection, particularly thunderstorms.
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