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Category: VIIRS

River valley fog features on VIIRS Day/Night Band imagery

An AWIPS image of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.8 µm Day/Night Band data with overlays of surface observations (above) revealed the “dendritic fingers” signature of river valley fog across parts of southwestern Wisconsin and the adjacent Mississippi River Valley region at 08:17 UTC (3:17 AM local time) on 04 September 2012.... Read More

Wildfires in the northwestern US

McIDAS images of GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel data during the day and 3.9 µm shortwave IR data at night (above; click image to play animation) revealed a number of very large and dense smoke plumes from wildfires that were burning in parts of the northwestern US (primarily in Idaho)... Read More