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Archive: Thu May 2018

The 3.9 µm channel at night over very cold cloud tops

When cloud top temperatures are very cold, the 3.9 µm imagery will have characteristics that suggest a noisy signal.  The 45-minute animation above shows a cold cloud top east of Florida in 4 different infrared channels:  3.9 µm (Upper Left), 10.3 µm (Upper Right), 8.5 µm (Lower Left) and 12.3 µm (Lower Right).  That... Read More