From a NOAA Email: The first in-person Satellite Proving Ground experiment at the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) in Norman OK since 2019 is underway! We have 7 NWS forecasters helping to evaluate 5 products that involve satellite data, focusing specifically on severe storms and their environment. One of the products... Read More

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

Clear skies over the upper Midwest allowed all 3 JPSS Satellites — Suomi NPP, NOAA-20 and NOAA-21 — to obtain excellent views of the Great Lakes on 11 April 2023. The Great Lakes are largely ice-free (with the exception of a few bays in northern Green Bay, over northern Lake... Read More

Polar2Grid version 3.0 (released earlier this year; see this blog post, and this one on displaying individual VIIRS channels) has the capability (like earlier versions) to create imagery from selected individual ATMS (Advanced Technology Microwave Sounder) channels, and for some derived products as well. In this example, I would like to create imagery on February 3rd and 4th around the Hawai’ian... Read More