If you see something, like a blog post for example (link, this shows an airmass high in Total Precipitable Water crossing the North Pole) and you’re curious what JPSS satellite imagery might look like with that something, how can you proceed? If the data are in the recent past, one... Read More

GOES-18 infrared imagery (Band 13, 10.3 µm) and derived Total Precipitable Water, above, shows tropical Invest 91P several hundred miles south of American Samoa within a corridor of moisture associated with the South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ). (Note that the default color scale for Total Precipitable Water (TPW) has been... Read More

New software now in use at CIMSS combines JPSS Raw Data Records (RDRs) from Suomi-NPP or from NOAA-20, created at different direct broadcast antenna sites (for example, at CIMSS (data link for NOAA-20; data link for Suomi NPP) — and at AOML in Miami), into a single RDR that includes data that can span roughly 1/4 of a JPSS... Read More

True- and False-color imagery of Lake Erie from VIIRS data on NOAA-20, above, show a Lake largely clear of ice in mid-February (!). Cyan colors in the False-color imagery do suggest lake ice along the northern shore of Erie, however, to the east of Kingsville Ontario, and to the east of... Read More