This blog has featured numerous blog posts that use visible imagery from two Geostationary Platforms (e.g., GOES-16/GOES-17 ; Himawari-8/GEOKOMPSAT-2).  Different cloud heights can be perceived in that imagery (for those who have mastered the art of crossing their eyes!).GOES-R-type satellites also produce a Level 2 Product:  Cloud Top Height.  Can that product... Read More

VIIRS Today, like MODIS today, subsects the US into 8 sectors of equal size. If you live in central South Carolina, or in the middle of Florida, for example, the Sector 7/Sector 8 seam is right on top of you. Perhaps you want to view the entire Great Lakes in one image, rather than... Read More

geo2grid (see this recent blog post) is a handy software package that allows anyone to create useful satellite imagery. Recent blog posts that document how to use geo2grid have shown visible or red-green-blue (RGB) composites. Individual infrared bands can also provide useful information, and this blog posts describes how you can create infrared imagery... Read More

https://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/satellite-blog/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2020/06/GOES-16_ABI_airmass_20200602_1400_to_20200603_1640anim.mp4GOES-16 Airmass RGB, 1400 UTC on 2 June 2020 to 1640 UTC on 3 June 2020Severe weather occurred over the upper Midwest on 2 June 2020, and a derecho occurred over the mid-Atlantic States on 3 June 2020. These two events were linked, and the animation above shows the system moving and redeveloping from Minnesota on 2 June 202 eastward to Pennsylvania on 3 June 2020. How was... Read More