A toggle between 30-meter resolution Landsat-8 False Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images viewed using RealEarth (above) revealed a large ice lead that had opened up to the east of Utqiagvik (Barrow), Alaska on 28 March 2019. Snow and ice appear as darker shades of cyan in the RGB image, with open... Read More
A persistent northward transport of anomalously-warm air across the Bering Sea during the month of February 2019 led to an unusual loss of sea ice there — daily images of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 Sea Ice Concentration (source) from 01 February to 09 March (above) showed the northward retreat of ice from... Read More
* GOES-17 images shown here are preliminary and non-operational *A comparison of GOES-17 Low-level Water Vapor (7.3 µm) images with topography (above) revealed that radiation being emitted by the higher elevations of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska was able to be sensed by the 7.3 µm detectors — in spite of... Read More
A sequence of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day/Night Band (0.7 µm) and Infrared Window (11.45 µm) images centered over the North Slope of Alaska (above) showed a few patches of thin stratus cloud drifting westward on 24 November 2018. Ample illumination from the Moon — which was in the Waning Gibbous phase,... Read More
