The first tropical depression of the 2009 season formed off the US East Coast on 28 May 2009. An AWIPS animation of GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” images (above) revealed several bursts of convection as the canopy of... Read More
AWIPS images of the 1-km resolution MODIS 11.0 µm and the 4-km resolution GOES-12 10.7 µm “IR window” channels (above) showed a cluster of very cold cloud top temperatures (-88º C on MODIS, and -82º C on GOES, violet colors) associated with deep convection over the northwestern Gulf of Mexico... Read More
