“…There have been a number of wide-ranging studies on clouds and precipitation that have taken advantage of geostationary satellite measurements, e.g., investigations of the derivation of the atmospheric motion vector [e.g., Otsuka et al, 2015], detection and monitoring of rapidly developing cumulus areas [e.g., Okabe et al, 2011;Sieglaff et al, 2011]. Furthermore, there have been many studies on the life cycles of cloud-precipitation systems using geostationary satellite measurements [e.g., Chen and Houze, 1997;Rickenbach, 1999].…”