Previous blog posts have documented how to display imagery using geo2grid, and how to create new RGB products. (Note: geo2grid v1.1 is now available at this link) This blog post will detail the steps needed to create a brightness temperature difference field. For that to occur, information must be entered into these two files within the geo2grid file structure: $GEO2GRID_HOME/libexec/python_runtime/etc/polar2grid/enhancements/abi.yaml and $GEO2GRID_HOME/libexec/python_runtime/etc/polar2grid/composites/abi.yaml.... Read More

Geo2grid software is being updated and version 1.1 will be released shortly. [Update: it is now available here] Users will notice some added features (for example, support for GLM display, and support for some Level 2 products, and GOES-18, Himawari-9 and AGRI data), and will also note faster execution times.... Read More

CSPP Quicklooks (click to view documentation) is a software package (available here) developed at CIMSS to (as the name might suggest!) create images from Polar-orbiting data, as shown in this blog post that shows imagery created from Direct Broadcast data (for example. using NUCAPS EDRs (Environmental Data Records) files as available at the... Read More

Conventional Meteorological Canon is that the Day Convection RGB, shown above in full-disk imagery from AWIPS (and because it’s Full Disk, the resolution is degraded to 6 km in both latitudinal and longitudinal directions), shows yellow in regions where cloud (ice) particle sizes are very small at the top of strong updrafts,... Read More