SSEC/CIMSS scientists (notably Rick Kohrs) create daily imagery that blends vertical strips of true-color imagery at local Noon, starting near the dateline and proceeding westward. A year-long animation of this product is available here, and was discussed on this blog previously here (and here). Recent images are available at this website... Read More
2.5-minute rapid scan JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) displayed Typhoon Chanthu as it regained Category 5 intensity for a period of over 24 hours (track) as it moved north-northwestward between the Philippines and Taiwan during 10-11 September 2021. A VIIRS Infrared Window (11.45 µm) image from NOAA-20 as viewed using RealEarth... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) displayed Typhoon Chanthu undergoing a period of rapid intensification — with the appearance of a small-diameter “pinhole eye” within just a few hours — from a Category 2 to a Category 4 storm (ADT | SATCON) as it moved westward toward the... Read More
Tropical Storm Mirinae, shown above, to the east of Japan (click here to see the same image with latitude/longitude lines), was overflown on 8 August by Radar Constellation Mission Satellite one (RCM-1) at 2013 UTC. The Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) imagery (from this site) is shown below, with both polarities. The two... Read More
