Category: Red-Green-Blue (RGB) images
“Plume of unknown etiology” moving over Alaska
McIDAS images of GOES-11 0.65 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed an interesting “dark plume” feature that was moving in an arc from far northeastern Russia, across the East Siberian Sea and Chukchi Sea, and finally over far northwestern Alaska on 16 March – 17... Read More
Ice breakup in the northern portion of Green Bay
A comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) shows the breakup of ice in the northern portion of Green Bay, Wisconsin. It can be seen that there is a... Read More
Lake-effect snow in northeastern Minnesota
AWIPS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) revealed the formation of convergence bands withing a weak cyclonic circulation over western Lake Superior on 07 March 2011. These convergence bands were responsible for producing... Read More
