The first “official” 0ºF (-18ºC) temperature of the 2011/2012 winter season in Alaska was recorded at Anaktuvuk Pass on 12 October 2011. AWIPS images of “4-km resolution” GOES-11 10.7 µm IR data (above) indicated that portions of the Brooks Range in northern Alaska were... Read More
The “spinning globe” satellite image montage (above; click image to play animation) showed the cloud formations around the planet on Earth Day (22 April 2011). This product is created by combining data from 5 of the currently operational geostationary orbiting meteorological satellites (GOES-East at 75º West longitude, GOES-West at 135º... Read More
AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 0.86 µm visible channel data (above) revealed a pair of von Karman vortices streaming southward from the Aleutian Islands of Alaska on 14 April 2011. In this 2-image comparison, note that the cloud features were moving, but the ice in the Bering Sea remained stationary.An... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an interesting “dark plume” feature that was moving in an arc from far northeastern Russia, across the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea, and finally over far northwestern Alaska on 16 March – 17... Read More
