A comparison of 250-meter resolution MODIS true color and false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) images from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed a large fire (perhaps a prescribed burn?) in a remote area of the Red Lake Indian Reservation, just to the west of the Upper and Lower Red Lakes in far northern Minnesota on... Read More

McIDAS images of the GOES-12 0.65 µm visible channel data (above) revealed a large hazy aerosol plume that was moving off the Northeast US and drifting out over the adjacent waters of the Atlantic Ocean on 19 March 2010. This aerosol plume exhibited Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) values of 0.6 and higher... Read More

A series of snowstorms this winter, sometimes chronicled here in the CIMSS blog, have left a hefty snowpack over the Mountains of New England and New York. The series of storms has also meant abundant cloudiness, but on March 16th, clear skies prevailed as the Aqua satellite, with a MODIS... Read More

EUMETSAT Metetosat-9 10.8 µm IR images (above; also available as a QuickTime movie) showed the evolution of a disturbance that had all the appearances of being another example of a rather rare event: a subtropical cyclone in the South Atlantic Ocean (off the southeast coast of Brazil) during the 09 March... Read More