Category: Training
SAR Wind observations near American Samoa, part VI
A second pair of SAR observations occurred on 23 February, one at 0544 UTC (above) and one at 1647 UTC (below). The character of the two scenes is quite different. The 0544 UTC wind imagery and NRCS imagery (from this site) shows a mostly quiescent scene with widespread northeasterly winds. One arc of winds... Read More
Wind shear in the Nighttime Microphysics RGB
A strength of the Night Microphysics RGB in the tropics is that it’s pretty easy to use it in regions of mostly clear skies to diagnose wind shear, because high clouds will show up as dark red, and low cloud show up as pale pink or cyan (see this annotated image). In... Read More
GOES-R Level 2 Products with geo2grid version 1.1
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