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Archive: Sat Jan 2011

Lake Michigan lake-effect snow band enhanced with a mesoscale vortex

A comparison of MODIS Red/Green/Blue (RGB) “true color” (created using Bands 1/4/3) and “false color” (created using Bands 7/2/1) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed a well-defined single lake-effect snow (LES) band running down the length of Lake Michigan on 08 January 2011. On the false color image, snow cover, ice, and glaciated clouds appeared as cyan-colored... Read More