High elevation snow cover across the Grand Canyon region of the Southwest US
A strong Pacific storm system moved through the southwestern US in late December 2010, producing snowfall amounts as high as 30 inches in northern Arizona. On 01 January 2011, a 250-meter resolution MODIS true color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image (viewed using Google Earth) from the SSEC MODIS Today site (above) showed the correlation of elevation and snow cover across the Grand... Read More