The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Polar2grid package is being updated and amended. Polar2grid version 3.1 (coming soon to a computer near your desk!) will include the ability to create reprojected images of Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD) and Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI). The imagery above from AWIPS shows the NOAA-20 AOD... Read More

Geo2grid software was used to create the three true-color animations below, using GOES-16 Full-Disk Level-1b Radiance data over the tropical Atlantic. ABI gives a vivid representation of the cloud patterns associated with a tropical wave developing (near 35oW on 27 June, near 40oW on 28 June, and approaching 50oW on... Read More

NUCAPS EDRs (Environmental Data Records) are now populating space in the cloud, such as at this Amazon webservices (AWS) link https://noaa-nesdis-n20-pds.s3.amazonaws.com/index.html. This is part of the NODD (NOAA Open-Data Dessemination) project. At that AWS link you will see a ‘NUCAPS-EDR’ directory, and dropping down through year/month/day selections, a list of... Read More

LightningCast is a product within the ProbSevere portfolio that uses 4 ABI (or AHI) channels to estimate the likelihood of a GLM observation within the next 60 minutes. For the past couple years, this product has been used experimentally over Guam (using Himawari-9 data), even though the product was trained using... Read More