AWIPS images of POES AVHRR visible and IR channel data with an overlay of Mean Sea Level Pressure contours (above) showed a very intense Storm Force low that was approaching the Alaska Panhandle region at 20:42 UTC on 12 October 2010. This large... Read More

Tropical Storm Paula formed just off the coast of Honduras on 11 October 2010. GOES-13 0.63 µm visible channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed the well-defined convective clusters associated with Paula.The canopy of cold cloud tops was evident on GOES-13 10.7 µm... Read More

AWIPS images showing comparisons of the 4-km resolution GOES-13 fog/stratus product with the 1-km resolution MODIS fog/stratus product (above) and also the 1-km resolution POES AVHRR fog/stratus product (below) offer further demonstration of the importance of improved spatial resolution for the detection of the small-scale filaments of valley fog that were... Read More

It’s not often that the entire state of Wisconsin is “cloud-free” — but the MODIS “color balanced” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (above; courtesy of Sam Batzli, SSEC / WisconsinView Project) shows a beautiful example of Wisconsin and adjacent areas on 05... Read More