AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images with automated overshooting top detection icons (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a large mesoscale convective system across northwestern Kansas during the afternoon hours on 05 August 2013.... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the hazy signature of a dust-laden Saharan Air Layer (SAL) that was propagating westward across the North Atlantic Ocean during the 01 August – 02 August 2013 period. The full disk satellite perspective helped... Read More

AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an undular bore marking a surface-based convective outflow boundary which formed over southwestern Nebraska early in the day on 31 July 2013 — this outflow... Read More

A sequence of three Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel images (above) showed Tropical Storm Flossie (NHC | CPHC) as it was moving westward toward Hawaii during the 27 July – 28 July 2013 period. The first and third of... Read More