A comparison of GOES-11 6.7µm and GOES-13 6.5µm “water vapor channel” images from 23 September 2008 (above) highlights two important changes to the GOES-13 satellite: the spatial resolution of the GOES-13 water vapor channel imagery has been improved to 4km (compared to... Read More
What do you do on the last day of meteorological summer if you’re in southeastern Nunavut or far northern Manitoba in Canada? You watch fresh snow cover melt! AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel, snow/ice channel, and Land Surface Temperature product on Read More
AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-12 fog/stratus and Low Cloud Base products and the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) showed fingers of river valley fog that had formed over parts of southern Missouri and northern Arkansas at around 08 UTC (3am local time) on Read More
Blog reader Michael Lawson wrote:Hi, I am a meteorologist working with Meridian Environmental Technology in Grand Forks, ND. A co-worker noticed a gravity wave feature in the visible over northern Indiana/northwest Ohio during the afternoon of September 15, 2008. Clouds moving into the feature would dissipate then reform once they... Read More
