Hurricane Martin, now in the north Atlantic, continues to move northeast and is expected to become a post-tropical cyclone in the next few hours. It was named a Hurricane on Wednesday, 2022-11-02 around 15UTC. Its maximum sustained winds are 85 mph (140 km/h). By the weekend, Martin’s swells will be... Read More
Access to SSEC’s Data Center allows for some serious “data crunching” with the full record of GOES-17 ABI data. In Figure 1 below, GOES-17 Band 13 Full Disk brightness temperatures have been averaged for each month in 2021. These fields of averaged brightness temperature are useful for assisting forecasters in... Read More
GOES-17 captured ash blowing off Mount St. Helens in Washington State, which erupted over forty years ago. The blowing debris can be seen from the GOES-17 ABI in this true color animation from 13:00 UTC to 16:50 UTC on 8-3-2022. ... Read More
In a previous post, we explored a data interpolation technique that involved running sections of missing GOES-17 Band 13 data through a shape-preserving piecewise cubic spline method in order to fill the data gaps for brightness temperature (BT). (That method was nicknamed ‘pchip’ interpolation.) In this post, we introduce a more... Read More
