JMA 2.5-minute rapid scan Himawari-8 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.4 µm) images (above) showed Typhoon Vongfong during the 24 hours covering its rapid intensification to Category 3 intensity on 13 May (ADT | SATCON) and eventual landfall on Samar Island in the Philippines as a Category 2 storm on 14 May 2020.... Read More
JMA Himawari-8 True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images created using Geo2Grid (above) revealed a long plume of airborne dust from the Gobi Desert, which curved cyclonically across northeastern China and the Korean Peninsula, eventually moving over the Sea of Japan on 12 May 2020.A longer day/night animation of Himawari-8 Dust RGB images (below)... Read More
GOES-16 Clean Window imagery from 1800 UTC on 7 May 2020, above, suggests a frontal zone from the central Atlantic southwestward through the Florida Straits. What products can be used to diagnose the moisture differences between the dry airmass over the southeast United States/Florida and the far moister airmass over... Read More
Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) data from Suomi NPP and NOAA-20 can be used to create accurate sea-surface temperature (SST) fields using the Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean (ACSPO) algorithms. The toggle above shows ACSPO SSTs over the Gulf of Maine from Suomi NPP (at 0620 UTC) and from NOAA-20 (at 0710 UTC) — orbital paths can be found here. Waters... Read More
