Explore the effect of time and space resolution

Intense Thunderstorm (baseball-size hail) GOES-16 Infrared Window (10.33um) Imagery over TX Panhandle

Explore the effects that time and spatial resolutions can have when interpreting satellite images!

Changeable imagery GOES-16 (temporal) imagery

Can you see the (overshooting tops)? (Hint: use the + Pause button)

Controls:

- Res decreases the resolution; that is, fewer pixels cover the same geographic region, providing less detail.
+ Res increases the resolution; that is, more pixels cover the same geographic region, providing more detail.
- Time decreases the time interval between images, in effect providing images more often.
+ Time increases the time interval between images, thus providing images less often.
Reset resets the resolution and time increments to the default values.
Pause/Loop will stop and start the animation (looping).
< Step steps one time step backward (this will stop the animation if it is running)
> Step steps one time step forward (stopping the animation if it is running)

Main GOES-16 'explore the effects of time and space' web page Note that these images are from the pre-operational testing phase of the GOES-16 ABI instrument.