GOES-R Satellites (GOES-16 as GOES-East and GOES-18 as GOES-West) provide single-channel observations, such as the clean window infrared image above that can be used to identify features. In the example above, a mid-level cloud deck stretches southeastward from the Samoan islands that surround 170oW Longitude. Higher clouds with with embedded... Read More

MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields, above, (archived here), show the motion of Typhoon Bolaven as it evolved from a strong typhoon west of 150o E Longitude on 10 October to a potent extratropical cyclone approaching 150oW Longitude on 16 October 2023, at which later time a long filament of tropical moisture continued to accompany the... Read More

10-minute Full Disk GOES-16 (GOES-East) CIMSS Natural True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse shadow as it progressed southeastward from the Pacific Northwest to Brazil on 14 October 2023.GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images — in the native projection of the GOES-16 satellite (below) — provided another view of the eclipse... Read More

GOES-18 (GOES-West) Dust RGB images (above) showed a plume of resuspended volcanic ash (brighter shades of pink) from the 1912 Novarupta-Katmai eruption in Alaska, which was being transported offshore across the Shelikof Strait (and Buoy 46077, where the peak wind gusts were 31 knots) toward Kodiak Island on 10 October 2023. Surface ash within the Valley Of Ten Thousand Smokes was being lofted by a... Read More