Geo2grid includes a series of shell scripts that manipulate various satellite inputs to create (beautiful!) full-resolution high-qulality imagery. Geo2grid version 1.1 was released in late 2022 and this blog post shows how to create a new RGB definition and display the data. The Tropical Version of the Airmass RGB is useful because if has better contrast (than in... Read More

If you see something, like a blog post for example (link, this shows an airmass high in Total Precipitable Water crossing the North Pole) and you’re curious what JPSS satellite imagery might look like with that something, how can you proceed? If the data are in the recent past, one... Read More

Note: NOAA-21 data used in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational. Imagery was created using Polar2Grid v3.0.The CIMSS Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) team has released Polar2Grid version 3.0, a software package that can be used (among many other things!) to create high-quality imagery from JPSS Sensor Data Record (SDR) files... Read More

The CSPP Geo project released (linux-based) Gridded GLM software version 1.0 (available for download here) in December of 2022 (This previous CIMSS Blog post discussed a beta version of that software). CSPPGeo Gridded GLM software (Documentation is available here) takes Lightning Cluster Filter Algorithm (LCFA) files and converts the Flash/Event/Group data therein to gridded fields that... Read More