A Saharan Air Layer (SAL) outbreak is occurring over the eastern Atlantic Ocean on 11-12 March 2019. The animation above shows the Split-Window Difference (10.3 µm – 12.3 µm) (link, from this website) color-enhanced to accentuate in red/pink/white the regions where Saharan Dust has been lofted into the atmosphere. This outbreak... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed a narrow filament of dry air over northern Wyoming and western South Dakota on the morning of 11 March 2019. A cold thermal signature of the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming could be seen through this band... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm), Cloud Top Height, Cloud Particle Size Distribution, and Cloud Phase (above) helped to characterize standing wave clouds that developed to the lee of the Appalachian Mountains on 07 March 2019. The primary standing wave rotor clouds were composed of smaller supercooled water droplets, with “banner clouds” composed... Read More
The toggle above compares a CONUS Sector visible image (0.64 µm) over the Caribbean (at 1732 UTC) with a 1730 UTC Full Disk Legacy Atmospheric Profile (LAP) Derived Stability Lifted Index field. (A “Veggie” Band 03 0.86 µm image, here, means that coastlines need not be drawn in because of... Read More
