The ‘manati’ website (https://manati.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/) is a helpful NOAA/NESDIS/STAR website that includes different observations from Polar-Orbiting satellites including, as shown above, Altimetric Observations of Significant Wave Height. Observations from three different satellites are shown in the image, including Jason3 (0718-0722 UTC), Cryosat (0610-0614 UTC) and Sentinel-3A (0927-0930 UTC). This post will help you anticipate where tomorrow’s... Read More

CIMSS Scientists who work with JPSS data had numerous presentations at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting held at the end of January in Baltimore. This blog post discusses two poster by Rich Dworak who (along with co-authors) investigated how JPSS data can define winds and ice properties in the... Read More

Altimetric measurements of the sea surface (from this site), above, show a region of very tall waves early on 14 February, with Significant Wave Heights exceeding 30 feet. Those waves are also show below in an analysis from OPC (link); they are southwest of a hurricane-force low (surface analysis; here is a toggle between the Significant Wave... Read More

CSPP software processes signals at Direct Broadcast antenna sites to create products and imagery with very low latency from Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) satellites. The software includes Microwave Integrated Retrieval System (MIRS) algorithms, including rain rate (available here). How well does that product do in capturing observed precipitation? The toggle above shows... Read More