Contributors: Scott Bachmeier, Mat Gunshor, Rick Kohrs, Margaret Mooney, Jim Nelson, Tim Schmit, and Eric Verbeten.Another CIMSS Satellite Blog on the Eclipse, when time compositing imagery from 2024 (and 2017). A similar loop as above, but with a special enhancement (contrast stretch) is in this CIMSS Satellite Blog post (which also includes a comparison of the 2017 and 2024 eclipse... Read More
For a solar eclipse to occur, the moon must be in between the Earth and the Sun. This occurs when the Moon is new — that is, when the side of the moon facing the Earth receives no solar illumination. The Day Night Band on Suomi-NPP, or NOAA-21, or NOAA-20... Read More
Metop-C and NOAA-20 are now both supplying NUCAPS profiles to National Weather Service AWIPS machines. Both the vertical profiles and gridded fields are available. The toggle above shows all the MetopC overpasses early on 4 April, and it includes horizontal maps of 850-mb Temperatures derived from the Metop-C NUCAPS profiles. Large swaths of satellite-derived fields are available... Read More
CIMSS Scientists have adjusted the presentation of individual thermodynamic variables produced from HEAP (NUCAPS) profiles for NOAA-20 overpasses that are available here in near-real time (at that website, chose j01 (that is, NOAA-20), crisfsr, and then images); HEAP software that supports NOAA-21 data is not yet available. Previously (above) values... Read More
