A tornado touched down just east of the Denver International Airport concourses at 20:21 UTC on 18 June 2013, producing a peak wind gust of 97 mph (before the wind instrumentation stopped transmitting data). AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible... Read More
McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel and 3.9 µm shortwave IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the large smoke plumes and fire “hot spots” (dark black pixels on the shortwave IR imagery) associated with the Germann Road Fire in northwestern Wisconsin and the Green Valley Fire... Read More
The Day/Night band on Suomi/NPP produces Night-Time visible imagery using illumination from natural (the moon, forest fires) and man-made sources (city lights, gas flares). Interpretation of the imagery should be done, therefore, with a knowledge of the Lunar phase. In the example above, note the dimming of the clouds over... Read More
On 05 December 2012 NASA and the NOAA National Geophysical Data Center (NGDC) jointly released a “Black Marble” global composite of night-time Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band imagery (collected from multiple cloud-free satellite overpasses in April and October 2012) — the image above shows this dataset visualized using... Read More
