The GOES-R Proving Ground requested that the GOES-13 satellite be placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode to monitor the development of Tropical Storm Don as it approached the far southern coast of Texas on 29 July 2011:Subject: Administrative, GOES-13 (GOES-East) SRSO scheduled for July 29 *Topic*: GOES-13 (GOES-East) SRSO is scheduled for: July 29,... Read More
Accurately diagnosing cloud properties can be a challenge, especially over regions such as the panhandle of southeastern Alaska where upstream upper air report information is sparse. New satellite products such as those derived using POES AVHRR and MODIS spectral bands (channels) can be helpful in such situations. On 22 July... Read More
AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-13 “fog/stratus product” at night followed by 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above) showed that there was a great deal of river valley fog along the portion of the Mississippi River where Wisconsin borders Minnesota and Iowa, as well as some... Read More
AWIPS images of 1-km resolution MODIS 3.7 µm shortwave IR data (above) revealed a large number of “hot spots” (black to red to yellow color enhancement) due to wildfires that were burning across parts of western Ontario, Canada on 17 July –
