McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 Visible (0.63 µm) data (above ) revealed numerous aircraft dissipation trails and “hole punch clouds” which formed over southern Florida and the adjacent waters of the Atlantic Ocean on 12 December 2014. These features are formed when... Read More

A large explosion aboard the offshore oil rig Deepwater Horizon — located about 52 miles southeast of Venice, Louisiana — occurred around 03 UTC on 21 April 2010. McIDAS images of GOES-13 (GOES-East) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and GOES-13 Visible (0.65 µm) data (above) showed a “hot spot” (darker black pixels) associated with... Read More

GOES-12 visible channel images (above) revealed numerous aircraft dissipation trails — otherwise known as “distrails” or “hole punch clouds” — during the day over eastern Texas, northern Louisiana, southern Arkansas, and Mississippi on 29 January 2007. Corresponding GOES-12 10.7... Read More