GOES-12 visible images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site on 15 August 2009 (above) showed that the low-level circulation of Tropical Storm Ana (the first named Atlantic Basin... Read More

GOES-12 visible images (above) revealed the northward propagation of an large convective outflow boundary across the Bay of Campeche (in the far southwestern Gulf of Mexico) on 02 July 2009. A larger-scale GOES-12 visible image (below) showed that at one point this outflow occupied an area approximately the size of... Read More

Yemenia Airways Flight 626 departed from Sana in Yemen and crashed after an aborted landing attempt at Moroni in the Comoros Islands off the east coast of Africa on 29 June 2009. Meteosat-7 11.5 µm IR images (above) showed that there was a strong southerly flow over the region on that... Read More

A small “dry swirl” feature (yellow color enhancement) was seen on AWIPS images of the GOES-12 6.5 µm water vapor channel (above) off the East Coast of the US on 24 June – 25 June 2009. A comparison of a GOES-12 water vapor image with the corresponding GOES-12 sounder Total Column Ozone product... Read More