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Category: GOES-15

Earth Day 2013

In honor of Earth Day, we offer a glimpse of the cloud cover across the planet, using a rotating global composite of geostationary IR images (data from the GOES-East, GOES-West, Meteosat, and MTSAT satellites) at 12:00 UTC on 22 April 2013 (above; click image to play animation).... Read More

Mountain wave “banner cloud” over Montana

McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 (GOES-West) and GOES-13 (GOES-East) 6.5 µm water vapor channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed a well-defined high altitude mountain wave cloud (or “banner cloud”) immediately downwind of the high elevations of the Rocky Mountains in western Montana on Read More