Category: Suomi NPP
Tropical Invest 91P south of American Samoa
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GOES-18 infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm) and derived Total Precipitable Water, above, shows tropical Invest 91P several hundred miles south of American Samoa within a corridor of moisture associated with the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ). (Note that the default color scale for Total Precipitable Water (TPW) has been... Read More
Polar2Grid version 3.0 has been released
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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
Extended JPSS ATMS/VIIRS imagery at the CIMSS Direct Broadcast site
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New software now in use at CIMSS combines JPSS Raw Data Records (RDRs) from Suomi-NPP or from NOAA-20, created at different direct broadcast antenna sites (for example, at CIMSS (data link for NOAA-20; data link for Suomi NPP) — and at AOML in Miami), into a single RDR that includes data that can span roughly 1/4 of a JPSS... Read More