The Whitewater-Baldy Fire Complex continued to burn in far western New Mexico on 26 May 2012. A night-time AWIPS image comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR and 3.74 µm shortwave IR data (above) demonstrated how the... Read More
GOES-East imagery of a fire that has been burning over western New Mexico for the past week shows a plume of smoke extending eastward from the fire, and spreading out over southeast New Mexico and parts of Texas and Mexico. It is difficult indeed to find the edges of the... Read More
The 2012 Atlantic Basin tropical cyclone season began with the formation of Tropical Storm Alberto off the coast of South Carolina on 19 May 2012. A sequence of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 10.8 µm, Terra/Aqua MODIS 11.0 µm, and Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 µm IR images (above) showed the growth of... Read More
The GOES-15 satellite was placed into Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode on 17 May 2012, in support of the Deep Convective Clouds and Chemistry (DC3) field experiment. SRSO provides bursts of imagery at 1-minute intervals (compared to the standard operational 15-minute interval). McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel data (above;... Read More
