An extensive area of mountain waves was apparent on the “water vapor channel” images from GOES-11 and GOES-13 on 22 November 2006 (above). Animation of these images (QuickTime | Java) shows that the... Read More
Tropical Storm Rosa formed off the southwest coast of Mexico early in the day on 09 November 2006. In spite of existing in an environment of moderate southwesterly vertical shear, the tropical disturbance was able to intensify... Read More
Parallax can mean different things in different sciences (See, for example, this link that describes how parallax is used to compute distances in astronomy), but in satellite meteorology, parallax is the apparent shift in an object’s position (away from the sub-satellite point) as a result of... Read More
A large (208,000 acre) wildfire continued to burn near Derby Mountain in southwestern Montana on 12 September. A QuickTime animation of the 3.9 micrometer shortwave IR imagery from GOES-11, GOES-12, and GOES-13 (above) shows the “hot spots” associated with this fire — on the... Read More
