As has been noted before, sunglint can occasionally show the parallel lines of internal waves within the ocean. On 4 September, this occurred again north of Sulawesi in the Celebes Sea, as shown in the animation above (created using geo2grid software and Himawari-9 HSD — Himawari Standard Data — files). Different... Read More
Himawari-9 Clean Window infrared (10.4 µm, Band 13) imagery (every 30 minutes) in late August and early September 2023, above, show the initially looping and later linear path of Typhoon Saola from its development east of the Philippines to its landfall in southern China. Saola was very strong just east... Read More
Metop-B and Merop-C overflew the same region of the tropical western Pacific to the east of Guam on 21 August 2023, as shown above (imagery dowloaded from the ‘manati’ website). Metop-C imagery is from 1041 UTC, Metop-B from 1128 UTC. There are two wind maxima in both plots, centered near 13oN,... Read More
Hourly estimates of Total Precipitable Water (TPW) from MIMIC, shown above in an mp4 animation (click here for an animated gif), show the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ, as measured by TPW) over the western Pacific evolving from a linear feature at the start of the animation to one with a... Read More
