McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 0.73 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a small polar low that was developing just south of the sea ice edge in the western Bering Sea on 15 February 2013. Widespread cloud streets could be seen streaming southwestward off the sea... Read More

AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) captured an example of a “Bennett Island cloud plume” off the north coast of Siberia on 13-14 February 2013. Minimum IR brightness temperature values reached -51... Read More

AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed a surprising amount of sea ice motion in the vicinity of Barrow, Alaska (station identifier PABR) during the 30-hour period between 12:14 UTC on 24 January and 18:30 UTC... Read More

A sequence of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR data from 13 January to 15 January 2013 (above; click image to play animation) revealed a great deal of motion of the sea ice in the Arctic Ocean off the north coast of Alaska. Surface stations along the... Read More