MTSAT-1R 0.68 µm visible channel images (above) tracked the eye of Super Typhoon Megi making landfall across the northern portion of the island of Luzon in the Philippines on 17-18 October 2010.The Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) product (below) showed the well-defined eye of Megi... Read More
AWIPS images of POES AVHRR visible and IR channel data with an overlay of Mean Sea Level Pressure contours (above) showed a very intense Storm Force low that was approaching the Alaska Panhandle region at 20:42 UTC on 12 October 2010. This large... Read More
Tropical Storm Paula formed just off the coast of Honduras on 11 October 2010. GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the well-defined convective clusters associated with Paula.The canopy of cold cloud tops was evident on GOES-13 10.7 µm... Read More
AWIPS images showing comparisons of the 4-km resolution GOES-13 fog/stratus product with the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) and also the 1-km resolution POES AVHRR fog/stratus product (below) offer further demonstration of the importance of improved spatial resolution for the detection of the small-scale filaments of valley fog that were... Read More
