Himawari-8 true-color imagery
A sequence of 10-minute interval Himawari-8 true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images covering the period 01 August to 06 August 2015 is shown above (also available as a very large 721 MByte animated GIF, a 66 Mbyte MP4 movie file, or an alternate version here on YouTube). One of the most prominent features seen is Typhoon Soudelor in the West Pacific Ocean, which reached Category 5 Super Typhoon intensity late in the day on 03 August, as indicated in a plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity estimate from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (below).
![Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimation plot for Super Typhoon Soudelor (click to enlarge)](https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2015/08/150730-150806_Super_Typhoon_Soudelor_ADT.gif)
Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimation plot for Super Typhoon Soudelor (click to enlarge)
Other features of interest seen during this 6-day animation include hazy-white plumes of urban pollution and/or wildfire smoke streaming eastward off the Asian continent, as well as light brown or tan-colored plumes of blowing dust/sand originating from the interior desert regions.
The Himawari-8 AHI data are provided by the JMA, acquired by NOAA/NESDIS/STAR, and processed at SSEC/CIMSS. The true-color images use information from AHI bands 1, 2, and 3, combined with a customized contrast stretch algorithm. No background image was used.