A strong cold front moved southward across the Upper Midwest and Great Lakes states on 26 May – 27 May 2008. During the preceding... Read More

A comparison of Aqua MODIS true color images from 05 March 2008 and 17 May 2008 (above) showed the “browning” of vegetation across Southern California after the Spring season rains (90-day total rainfall | 90-day percent of normal rainfall) had ended. A significant amount of snowmelt was also evident during that period over the southern Sierra Nevada mountains (as well... Read More

AWIPS images of the water vapor  satellite composite (above) showed the evolution of a wide variety of synoptic-scale features across the Northern Hemisphere at 3-hour intervals during the 19 May – 20 May 2008 period. Of particular interest was the water vapor signatures associated with an occluding cyclone over the... Read More

AWIPS images of the MODIS visible channel along with the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) products (above) depicted the areal extent of the Mississippi Alluvial Valley (MAV) on 12 May 2008. This physiographic feature represents the historical flood plain of the lower Mississippi River, which stretches from... Read More