Category: NOAA-20
Wildfire smoke, a cold front and a “Pnuemonia Front”
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Southern Wisconsin experienced the convergence of 3 cooling mechanisms during the afternoon hours of 16 May 2023: (1) the arrival of a dense band of smoke aloft — transported southward from wildfires in Alberta and Saskatchewan — which reduced incoming solar radiation, (2) a southward-moving cold front and (3) the inland surge... Read More
Displaying JPSS data from the NODD using Polar2Grid
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Joint Polar Satellite System (JPSS) data are now available online as part of the NOAA Open Data Dissemination (NODD) Program; at present, the data are available via Amazon Web Services (with future capabilities planned for Azure and Google). Global Suomi-NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 data (including Sensor Data Records (SDRs) and Environmental Data Records (EDRs)... Read More
Record snowpack eases long-term water woes while raising short-term flooding risks
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From coastal California to the Sierra Nevadas to the Rocky Mountains, precipitation totals this past winter reached historically high levels, especially when it comes to snowfall and mountain snowpack. The health of western watersheds in terms of mountain snow is readily apparent in VIIRS True and False Color imagery. ... Read More