The Full Moon that was exacerbating the high storm tides of Hurricane Sandy also allowed for stunning “night-time visible” imagery on 29 October 2012. A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band and 11.45 µm IR data from shortly after... Read More

A night-time (just after 07 UTC) comparison of AWIPS images of 375-meter resolution (mapped onto a 1-km AWIPS grid) Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR and 4-km resolution GOES-14 10.7 µm IR channel data (above) showed deep convection associated with tropical cyclone Invest 97L located to the east of the... Read More

McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the formation of a large and well-defined eye as Super Typhoon 17W (Sanba) intensified over the West Pacific Ocean on 13 September 2012.A plot of the CIMSS Advanced Dvorak... Read More

McIDAS images of GOES-14 1-minute interval Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) 1-km resolution 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed overshooting tops and cloud-top gravity waves associated with a large convective burst located just to the southwest of the center of Read More