An AWIPS comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm Day/Night Band (DNB), 11.45 µm IR, and IR brightness temperature difference “Fog/stratus product” images at 06:51 UTC on 09 May 2012 (above) revealed several ribbons of the aurora borealis (which showed up as bright... Read More

A surface outflow boundary (resulting from a dissipating mesoscale convective system over southern Texas) created an undular bore that propagated southward and southwestward during the night-time hours on 07 May 2012. AWIPS comparisons of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 µm “Day/Night Band” images with the corresponding VIIRS 11.45 µm... Read More

AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data (above) and 11.45 µm IR channel data (below) showed cloud and ice features over the Arctic Ocean on 28 April 2012. For geographic reference, station identifier CWMD is Mould Bay, located on Prince Patrick Island... Read More

AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel and 1.61 µm near-IR channel images (above) demonstrated the value of using the near-IR imagery to help discriminate between snow/ice (which appears darker on the near-IR image) and supercooled water droplet cloud features... Read More