The GOES-14 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES–R (SRSO-R) mode on 13 August 2013, providing images at 1-minute intervals over the western US. The prime features of interest were wildfires burning in... Read More
MTSAT-2 0.7 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) and 10.8 µm IR channel images (below; click image to play animation) showed a close-up view of the small “pinhole eye” exhibited by Super Typhoon Utor east of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 11 August... Read More
A cluster of 4 major fire complexes (the Elk, Pony, McCan, and Beaver complexes) began to exhibit extreme fire behavior on during the afternoon and evening hours on 10 August 2013. A comparison of GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 1-km resolution 0.63... Read More
A sequence of three AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR data (above) showed the relatively compact cloud structure associated with Hurricane Henriette over the Eastern Pacific Ocean during the 07 August – 08 August 2013 period. Cloud-top IR brightness... Read More
