Alexa Ross, a scientist at CIMSS (and CIMSS Blog contributor) has created a Matlab program that reads in NUCAPS EDR data from any Direct Broadcast datastream (here, for example), or from NOAA CLASS, and creates color-coded plots at NUCAPS data levels (that is, at any one of the 100 pressure levels used in... Read More
Scientists at STC and at SPoRT have created a website to view NUCAPS profiles using Sharppy and cloud resources. The animation above shows the user interface for Observed Soundings (i.e., upper-air soundings), for NUCAPS Soundings for different passes, and NAM Nest model profiles. The green points have been chosen for... Read More
The animation above (created using Geo2Grid) with a 3-h time step shows the approach of a mid-latitute shortwave trough (that produced large hail over Wisconsin on Tuesday 7 September; SPC Storm Reports) to Hurricane Larry over the tropical Atlantic. The Potential Vorticity anomaly associated with the mid-latitude trough (moving from the western Great Lakes on the 8th... Read More
Grace (then a tropical storm) is shown in AWIPS above, in between Jamaica and the Caymans, in Day Night Band Visible imagery, along with VIIRS I05 Infrared imagery, from 0626 UTC, using data from the Direct Broadcast site at CIMSS. The coldest cloud tops with the most vigorous convection, shown... Read More
