GOES-11 visible channel imagery from 05 January 2007 (above) revealed some complex wave structures within the various cloud features that were located over the Baja California region (Java animation): (1) a cold front was surging... Read More

05 January 2007 was the final day of the GOES-13 Post-Launch NOAA Science Test; following the final image at 09:45 UTC (above), the satellite was placed into on-orbit storage until it is needed to replace one of the other operational GOES. This also marked... Read More

Another example of detection of surface features on “water vapor channel” imagery was apparent on 18 December 2006. In this particular case, the “surface” was the high terrain of the Absaroka Range, Wind River Range, and Big Horn Mountains in Wyoming (all... Read More

A very cold arctic air mass had been building over central Alaska and northwestern Canada during the latter half of November 2006 (surface air temperatures colder than -40 F/-40 C have been reported daily over that region since 21 November). A NOAA-15 AVHRR 10.8µm “IR window channel” image centered... Read More