A McIDAS false-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (created using MODIS Bands 07/02/01) showed numerous “burn scars” (red-enhanced features) that remained from recent fire activity across eastern Kansas and eastern Oklahoma on 05 April 2011 (above). Previous blog posts displayed imagery of the fires as... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a number of well-defined ship condensation trails (or “ship tracks”) propagating southward within the marine boundary layer stratocumulus cloud field over the eastern North Pacific Ocean on 31 March 2011.A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km... Read More
McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a well-defined warm/dry “arc” feature (denoted by the brighter yellow color enhancement) just upwind of a large Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that was moving eastward along the northern Gulf of Mexico... Read More
AWIPS images of GOES-13 10.7 µm IR data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of two strong Mesoscale Convective Systems over the Gulf of Mexico on 28 March 2011. These storms prompted the Storm Prediction Center... Read More
