A major winter storm impacted parts of the Upper Midwest region on 13 November 2010, producing snowfall amounts as high as 14 inches at Emmetsburg, Iowa, 12.0 inches at Maple Grove, Minnesota (NWS MPX story), and 11.0 inches at Hawthorne, Wisconsin (NWS DLH story).AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 6.5 µm “water vapor channel” data (above)... Read More

AWIPS images of MODIS 0.65 µm “visible channel” and 2.1 µm “snow/ice channel” data (above) revealed a long, narrow band of snow cover oriented from south to north across far northeastern Wyoming, far eastern Montana, and far western North Dakota at 19:42 UTC (12:42 pm local time) on 11 November 2010.  ... Read More

A comparison of a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (created using Bands 1/4/3) with the corresponding MODIS false color image (created using Bands 7/2/1) obtained from the SSEC MODIS Today site confirmed that the brighter white area seen in far north-central Wisconsin on 05 November 2010 was a patch of snow... Read More

CIMSS has recently begun the process of evaluating and testing satellite imagery and products in the next generation of AWIPS (AWIPS II or AWIPS Migration). GOES 0.65 µm visible channel, 10.7 µm IR channel, 3.9 µm IR channel, and 6.5 µm water vapor channel data from 15 April 2010 are displayed using... Read More