Super Typhoon Francisco became the third Category 5 tropical cyclone of 2013 on 19 October 2013, as it intesified over the West Pacific Ocean northwest of Guam. 4-km resolution MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) showed the evolution and track of the eye of... Read More
McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the center of Typhoon Wipha moving just southeast of Japan on 15 October 2013. The asterisk at the center of the images denotes the location of Tokyo Narita International Airport — many areas in... Read More
A sequence of images of the satellite-wind-derived 850 hPa relative vorticity product at 6-hour intervals covering the period 04 October to 09 October 2013 (above; click image to play animation)... Read More
Tropical Storm Karen formed in the far southern Gulf of Mexico early in the day on 03 October 2013. About 2 hours after formation, AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 12.0 µm IR channel and 0.86 µm visible channel data at 15:44... Read More
