GOES-17 (GOES-West) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images (above) include contours of AK-NAM40 model Max Wind isotachs — and showed the flow associated with an anomalously-strong jet stream, with its axis located just off the Arctic coast of Alaska on 03 December 2022.Plots of Utqiagvik (Barrow, PABR) rawinsonde data from 1200 UTC... Read More
A sequence of Suomi-NPP VIIRS Visible images (above) showed a large area of ice-free water in the western Beaufort Sea and eastern Chukchi Sea north of Alaska — with limited sea ice concentration as far north as 80º N latitude — on 13 September 2022. False Color RGB images from... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images viewed using CSPP GeoSphere (above) showed the motion of sea ice filaments that had moved southward through the Bering Strait and into the northwestern Bering Sea (just off the coast of Chokotka Okrug, Russia) on 14 August 2022. A sequence of 375-meter resolution VIIRS False Color RGB... Read More
Beginning at 1713 UTC on 01 August 2022, GOES-18 began serving as GOES-West during an operational interleave period — so GOES-18 imagery routinely became available in AWIPS. Examples of GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images from a combination of the Alaska, Pacific-US (PACUS) and Hawai`i Sectors are... Read More
