1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed areas of bright sun glint off the open (ice-free) water in the Chukchi Sea — just off the coast of Alaska, from the Bering Strait to near Utqiagvik (formerly Barrow) — around 1 AM local time on 08 June 2024.... Read More

AMS__PMOSS_2024_GreenwaldDownloadCIMSS Scientists who work with JPSS data had numerous presentations at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting held at the end of January in Baltimore. This blog post discusses a poster by Tom Greenwald who (along with co-authors) investigated how microwave data from AMSR-2 can be used to... Read More

CIMSS Scientists who work with JPSS data had numerous presentations at the American Meteorological Society’s Annual Meeting held at the end of January in Baltimore. This blog post discusses two poster by Rich Dworak who (along with co-authors) investigated how JPSS data can define winds and ice properties in the... Read More

A sequence of daily NOAA-20 VIIRS Visible (0.64 µm) images from 01 November 2023 to 19 February 2024 (above) showed Iceberg A23a as it migrated northward away from the Antarctic Peninsula to east of the South Shetland Islands (days when dense cloud cover obscured A23a were omitted). Near the end of this time... Read More