Target Sector (2.5-minute interval) JMA Himawari-9 AHI Visible and Infrared images (above) showed Typhoon Koina as it intensfied to a Category 3 storm by 0000 UTC on 02 October 2023 (SATCON). Cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were as cold as -90C.Just prior to the start of the Himawari-9 animation, an image of RCM-3 Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) winds... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed Ophelia for a few hours after it became a Tropical Storm at 1800 UTC on 22 September 2023. The low-level circulation center (LLCC) was initially exposed, but deep convection just to the west began to increase in coverage and intensity as it... Read More
CSPP Geosphere, often featured on this blog, is a website which allows users to view near-real-time imagery of GOES-East and GOES-West ABI data. All sixteen spectral bands on the ABI are available to view, along with RGB imagery. Full disk products are available, along with Continental United States (CONUS) and the... Read More
11 hours of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Post-Tropical Cyclone Lee as it approached Atlantic Canada and Maine on 16 September 2023. PTC Lee made landfall in far western Nova Scotia around 2000 UTC, and produced strong winds and heavy rainfall across much of Maine.A longer animation of 5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-16 Air Mass RGB images (below) portrayed the large size... Read More
