Overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second interval GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) during a 7-hour period that included the landfall of Hurricane Ian along the southwest coast of Florida at 1905 UTC (Visible | Infrared) on 28 September 2022. Moving across very warm water (where buoy... Read More
GOES-18 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images viewed using CSPP GeoSphere (above) showed the motion of sea ice filaments that had moved southward through the Bering Strait and into the northwestern Bering Sea (just off the coast of Chokotka Okrug, Russia) on 14 August 2022. A sequence of 375-meter resolution VIIRS False Color RGB... Read More
A 30-meter resolution Landsat-8 False Color image viewed using RealEarth (above) displayed thin filaments of ice (brighter shades of cyan) in far western Lake Superior, just off the northern coast of Wisconsin, on 27 April 2022. Chequamegon Bay in northern Wisconsin also had significant amounts of ice remaining from the winter months.... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed signatures of a rapidly-spreading grassland fire in eastern Mongolia’s Numrug National Park (near the border with China) on 19 April 2022. The fast rate of northeastward growth of the dark burn scar in... Read More
