RADARSAT-2 and RCM-1 had two closely-spaced overpasses over Cyclone Freddy in the Indian Ocean early on 16 February 2023, as shown above. Eyewall speeds exceed 130 knots in the RCM-1 data! (Imagery and data are available here). The quadrant analyses for RCM-1 and for RADARSAT-2 show hurricane-force winds extending out... Read More
Two more SAR data collections occurred over American Samoa waters on 16 February, as shown above. (This is part of an ongoing special collection that extends through early March). As with most previous observations, winds around American Samoa were light. Consider these ASCAT observations from MetopC at ca. 2040 UTC on 16 February 2023, for example, taken from this site. Observed winds are uniformly around... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) include plots of Derived Motion Winds (DMW) — and showed the rapid offshore transport of cold arctic air across the southern Cook Inlet, Shelikof Strait and northwestern Gulf of Alaska on 12 February 2023. The fastest low-level (Surface – 900 hPa) DMW speed was... Read More
Sentinel-1A overflew the Samoan Islands shortly after sunset on 11 February and captured a packet of very strong winds just to the west of Tutuila Island of American Samoa. The toggle above compares Band 13 imagery with two different enhancements of the SAR Winds: one (here) highlighting the different Beaufort Scales,... Read More
