Abstract
Meteorological interpretation is conducted concerning the cloud features associated with four different synoptic situations as revealed in the GMS satellite pictures.
Emphasis is placed upon the importance of the following four aspects :
(1) The difference among three small-scale vortical cloud patterns associated with winter cold air outbreak over the Sea of Japan,
(2) The usefulness of specially processed infrared data in the analysis of active convective clouds producing torrential rains,
(3) The cloud evolution in the formation stage of Typhoon 8218 Judy and interaction between the Typhoon clouds and a frontal cloud band and
(4) Severe-storm-producing sharp western edge of the cloud system associated with a developing cyclone.
