GOES-16 Clean Window imagery from 1800 UTC on 7 May 2020, above, suggests a frontal zone from the central Atlantic southwestward through the Florida Straits. What products can be used to diagnose the moisture differences between the dry airmass over the southeast United States/Florida and the far moister airmass over... Read More
A cloud band passing through the upper midwest on 1 May 2020, shown above in the GOES-16 ABI Visible and Infrared imagery (toggled with NUCAPS products and radar), was accompanied by radar echoes. Would you expect that radar-indicated precipitation to reach the ground? Gridded NUCAPS fields (shown here with NUCAPS Sounding availability points) show... Read More
GOES-16 Clean Window (10.3 µm) infrared imagery, above (click to animate) shows two regions of convection over the southern Plains, one moving through central/southern Oklahoma, one developing over the Texas Panhandle and moving east). A similar (but slightly later) animation of GOES-16 Low-Level water vapor infrared imagery (7.34 µm) is... Read More
CIMSS has long hosted the popular site ‘MODIS Today‘ that allows easy access to full-resolution imagery from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument on board Terra (launched in 1999 and still producing imagery) and Aqua (launched in 2002 and still producing imagery). That site remains active and allows access to... Read More
