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

The latest release of the CSPPGeo software package geo2grid (version 1.1, downloadable here) includes support to display two Level 2 products from GOES-R: Cloud Top Temperature and Cloud Top Height. Cloud Top Temperature, above, created using data ordered and downloaded from the NOAA CLASS site, is at 2-km resolution (in line with the latest... Read More