GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) showed the motion of pack ice away from the southwest coast of Alaska on 20 November 2021. Strong offshore winds (gusting in excess of 30 knots at times) were causing the ice motion away from the coast into the Bering Sea —... Read More
NOAA-20 Day Night Band imagery from early morning (from the VIIRS Today website at CIMSS) on 19 November 2021 shows the impact of the total lunar eclipse on Day Night Band imagery. A lunar eclipse will always occur during a Full Moon; ample lunar illumination off the east coast accompanied that descending NOAA-20 pass between about 0635... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a cyclonically-rotating actinoform cloud feature that was moving west-southwestward across the East Pacific Ocean (about midway between Hawai’i and California) on 16 November 2021.In GOES-17 Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB images (below), the increasing shades of green exhibited by the curved bands of... Read More
The Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Ocean algorithm is part of the Community Software Processing Package (CSPP), CIMSS-maintained software that can be applied to Direct Broadcast data, such as those data from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP (and other satellites) downloaded at two antennae at CIMSS. CSPP will create AWIPS-ready tiles so that SST information can be... Read More
