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
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed Category 1 Hurricane Lee as it moved northward between Buoy 41048 and Bermuda (station identifier TXKF) on 14 September 2023. As shown in the plot below, the highest wind gust at Buoy 41048 was 41.0 m/s (79.7 knots, or 97.7 mph) at 2010 UTC (data transmission... 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 Lee as it intensified to become a Category 1 Hurricane in the Central Atlantic Ocean on 06 September 2023. The coldest cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures were around -90C (brighter white pixels embedded within darker black areas). Lee had... Read More
