During the pre-dawn hours of 30 August 2010, AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS and the 4-km resolution GOES-13 fog/stratus product at around 07 UTC  (above) demonstrated the importance of spatial resolution in displaying the location of narrow fingers of river... Read More

GOES-13 10.7 µm IR images (above) and 0.63 µm visible images (below) from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site showed Hurricane Earl after the storm reached Category 1 intensity on 29 August 2010. A Central Dense Overcast (CDO) could be seen developing in the images as Earl approached the Leeward Islands.A comparison of... Read More

An animation of the Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) product (above) revealed that Hurricane Danielle (which had intensified into a Category 4 storm) was undergoing an Eyewall Replacement Cycle (ERC) during the 27 August – 28 August 2010 period. Note how the smaller inner eyewall deteriorated and became replaced by a... Read More

As part of its NOAA post Launch Science Test, the GOES-15 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 24 August 2010, providing images at 1-minute intervals to monitor Hurricane Danielle. McIDAS images of GOES-15... Read More