The 2009 wildfire season roared to life in Alaska on 02 July – 03 July 2009, with a number of very large and very intense fires breaking out across interior portions of the state. A ridge of high pressure was in place over the region, allowing Fairbanks to experience a high temperature above... Read More
AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 fog/stratus product (above) demonstrate the advantage of higher spatial resolution for the detection of widespread small-scale fingers of valley fog that had formed during the overnight hours over much of the southern Appalachian Mountains states on... Read More
GOES-12 visible channel images (above) showed advection fog that developed over Lake Michigan during the day on 07 May 2009. As pointed out on the US Air Quality (aka The Smog Blog) site, this fog... Read More
AWIPS images of the 4-km resolution GOES-11 fog/stratus product and the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) showed widespread fog and stratus clouds in the central valleys of California as well as over the adjacent offshore waters of the Pacific Ocean on 08 January 2009. With the finer spatial resolution of the... Read More
