RealEarth has added GOES-17 IFR Probability Fields to its product suite (GOES-16 IFR Probability fields have been available in RealEarth for some time). They can be accessed most simply by entering ‘IFR Probabilty’ in the RealEarth search box. At present only the ‘PACUS’ domain (the GOES-17 equivalent of the GOES-16... Read More
The suite of nighttime GOES-16 (GOES-East) Fog / Low Stratus products — Marginal Visual Flight Rules (MVFR) Probability, Instrument Flight Rules (IFR) Probability, Low Instrument Flight Rules (LIFR) Probability, and Cloud Thickness — along with the subsequent daytime “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the increasing areal coverage of vertically shallow (Cloud Thickness... Read More
The suite of Fog/Low Stratus (FLS) products derived using GOES-17 (GOES-West) data within the PACUS Sector (above) became available via the Satellite Broadcast Network (SBN) for AWIPS on 18 October 2021. Two examples are shown below: one centered over Oregon, and the other centered over the Big Island of Hawai’i. The 4... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Night Fog BTD (10.3-3.9 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images on 23 August 2021 (above) showed the nighttime formation of widespread river valley fog across parts of the Mid-South and adjacent Appalachians — followed by morning fog dissipation once solar heating initiated boundary layer mixing. With surface high pressure in... Read More
