Strong northwesterly winds along the California coast interacted with the complex terrain and orientation of Monterey Bay to promote the formation of a cyclonic coastal eddy (known locally as an “Otter Eddy”) early in the day on 13 May 2013. McIDAS images of... Read More
An AWIPS image of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data (above) revealed a large patch of water within the eastern Gulf of Mexico “sun glint” region that exhibited a much darker appearance than the surrounding waters off the west coast of Florida on Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed a well-defined “southerly surge” of stratus clouds, which were moving northward along the coast of the Big Sur region of central California on 22 April 2013.AWIPS images... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of MODIS 11.0-3.7 µm IR brightness temperature difference “fog/stratus product”, 3.7 µm shortwave IR, 11.0 µm IR window, and 6.7 µm water vapor channel images (above) showed the night-time (08:04 UTC or 3:04 AM local time) development of parallel cloud bands associated with an undular... Read More
