Mr. Owen Shieh, JTWC Training Officer, reviews lower level streamlines as part of JTWC's Phase 1 training with Marines from the MCAS Kaneohe Bay METOC unit and Okinawa's 3rd Intelligence Operations Squadron. Lower level streamline charts utilize observations, satellite-derived cloud drift winds, and scatterometry to depict circulations, troughing, and ridging, all of which can contribute to or hinder tropical cyclogenesis and weather patterns across JTWC's AOR.

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