A new scanning schedule that adds more sectors is being followed for GOES-15 as the satellite drifts westward towards 135 W. When GOES-15 becomes the new GOES-West, replacing GOES-11 (planned to occur on December 6th), the augmented scanning schedule will become operational, offering 1 or 2 additional scans per hour of... Read More
McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play 3-day animation) showed a plume of tropical moisture being drawn into the circulation of a large cut-off low that was part of a “Rex block” that had formed over the... Read More
A previous blog post discussed the sediment features seen in southern Lake Michigan in early October of 2011. However, looking a bit farther to the east over Lake Erie several days later, a 09 October 2011 comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the Read More
High pressure over the eastern United States on October 6th allowed a rare view of the (almost) cloud-free Great Lakes, above, from the MODIS instrument on board Terra. The clear skies also allowed observations of lake surface temperatures over the entire Lake system, shown below. (Click here for an animation... Read More
