GOES-16 and GOES-17 Full-Disk IFR and Low IFR Probability fields are now available in RealEarth. IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) Probability estimates the likelihood that IFR conditions are occurring. You can view and animate real-time satellite IFR probability in RealEarth. ... Read More
Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) are rules and guidelines put in place by the Federal Aviation Administration that govern conditions in which “flight by outside visual reference is not safe”, whether by low clouds or fog. Cloud and reflectance data from geostationary satellites GOES-16 and GOES-17 provide a satellite IFR Probability... Read More
Probability of Moderate or Greater (MOG) Turbulence is a Machine-Learning product that uses satellite imagery (Band 13 — the clean window infrared channel at 10.3 µm — over the GOES-West domain; GOES-16 Probabilities use both Band 13 and the upper-level water vapor imagery — Band 8 at 6.19 µm; training... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) displayed an isolated vortex of very dry air moving over Texas and Louisiana on 24 March 2022. Contours of RAP40 model PV1.5 Pressure — a representation of the “dynamic tropopause” — indicated that this dry feature was a Potential Vorticity (PV) anomaly,... Read More
