GOES-13 was taken out of storage on 19 June 2019 to begin a period of Image Navigation and Registration (INR) testing — the Satellite Data Services positioned a spare rooftop antenna to begin ingesting the GVAR data from the satellite (positioned over the Equator at 60.2º W longitude) . Visible images from... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed a smoke plume and pyrocumulus clouds in addition to the thermal anomaly (or “hot spot”) associated with the lightning-initiated North River wildfire burning in the far eastern Seward Peninsula of Alaska on 16 June 2019. It... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) revealed a bright reflection of sunlight off the large arrays of solar panels at Topaz Solar Farm in southern California (Google maps) — located between Black Mountain and California Valley — on 12 June 2019. Of particular interest are the vertical “stripes” emanating from... Read More
A comparison of Water Vapor images from GOES-17 (GOES-West) and GOES-15 Water Vapor images (above) showed the signature of an anomalously-deep closed low that was moving southeastward over the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska during the 11 June – 12 June 2019 period. The images are shown in the native... Read More
