McIDAS images of GOES-13 3.9 µm shortwave IR and 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the fire hot spot (dark black pixels) and large smoke plume associated with the Bastrop County fire complex in eastern Texas on Read More

McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the transition of Tropical Depression #13 into Tropical Storm Lee in the northern Gulf of Mexico on 02 September 2011. Deep convection persisted within the eastern semi-circle of the system, with large areas exhibiting cloud... Read More

Category two Hurricane Irene (shown in the rocking animation above) is over the South Atlantic Bight after moving through the Bahamas on August 25th. The projected path is over coastal North Carolina and then towards New England. What factors will control future changes in strength?Morphed microwave imagery, above (and available... Read More

Automated detection of overshooting tops allows identification of regions of intense convective updrafts that penetrate into the stratosphere. Overshooting tops correlate well with regions of intense rainfall and with severe weather. In tropical systems, overshooting tops are most frequent during intensification. The loop above shows overshooting tops (identified as the... Read More