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Archive: Wed Jun 2012

Great Lake Water Surface Temperatures

Clear skies over the upper Midwest on the morning of 13 June 2012 allowed the MODIS instrument on board Aqua and the AVHRR instrument on board NOAA-19 to sense the surface temperature of Lakes Michigan and Superior. Which instrument yielded observations that were closer to those recorded in situ by... Read More

Large wildfire in Labrador, Canada

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the development of a very broad and dense smoke plume emanating from a large wildfire that was burning just northwest of Goose Bay, Labrador (station identifier CYYR)  in far eastern Canada on Read More