AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 µm IR channel images with overlays of surface reports and SPC storm reports (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of thunderstorms across the Panhandle region of Texas on 14... Read More
A wide band of multi-layered clouds was oriented southwest-to-northeast along a cold frontal boundary moving through the Ohio River Valley region on 10 December 2012. On a 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR image at 17:42 UTC (above), much of this... Read More
A strong winter storm moved across the Northern Plains and Upper Midwest regions of the US on 09 December 2012, producing widespread heavy snowfall (HPC storm summary) and creating blizzard conditions that closed a number of roads (including portions of Interstates 90 and 29 in eastern South Dakota). AWIPS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to... Read More
On 05 December 2012 NASA and the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) jointly released a “Black Marble” global composite of night-time Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band imagery (collected from multiple cloud-free satellite overpasses in April and October 2012) — the image above shows this dataset visualized using... Read More
