AVHRR false color imagery (above; viewed using Google Earth) and GOES-11 visible channel imagery (below) revealed a family of cyclonic vorticies propagating westward across the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 29 March... Read More
The visible image comparison shown above includes two images centered on Fairbanks AK (the green box in the center). The images are from the same time — 1730 UTC — one is from 14 March, and one is from 4 March, 11 days earlier. Sunrises [and daylight duration] at... Read More
An animation of GOES-11 6.7 µm “water vapor channel” imagery (above) shows the development and intensification of a mid-latitude cyclone over the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 13 January 2008. Of particular interest in the water vapor imagery is the appearance of well-defined satellite signatures of an initial warm conveyor... Read More
AWIPS images of global water vapor composites (above) showed a large and powerful Pacific storm that was beginning to impact the US West Coast on 04 January 2008. This storm was tapping a very long plume of high total precipitable water (TPW) originating from the western Pacific Ocean, as seen in an... Read More
