Andy Heidinger (NOAA/NESDIS/Advanced Satellite Products Branch) pointed out a very long and thin cloud feature, which can be seen near the center of the false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image created using AVHRR imagery (above). In this particular RGB image, low clouds appear dark blue, while cirrus clouds are white. The cloud feature of... Read More
McIDAS images of POES AVHRR 10.8 µm IR channel data (above) showed the development of a large terrain-induced “banner cloud” over the eastern part of the Brooks Range in northeastern Alaska on 01 January – 02 January 2010. The IR cloud top brightness temperature values were as cold as -65º... Read More
A McIDAS image of the NOAA-18 10.8 µm IR channel (above) showed a region of very cold surface temperatures (darker blue to violet color enhancement) over the interior of Alaska on 19 November 2009, especially in the vicinity of Chandalar Lake (station identifier PALR) and Anuktuvuk Pass (station identifier PAKP).... Read More
AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel, the 2.1 µm near-IR “snow/ice” channel, and the 3.7 µm shortwave IR channel (above) displayed a swath of snow cover on the ground in far northern Quebec, Canada on 04 October 2009. The Environment Canada Read More
