AWIPS comparisons of a 250-meter resolution MODIS true-color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image at 16:46 UTC on 21 June 2012 with the corresponding 1-km resolution MODIS Sea Surface Temperature product and 0.65 µm visible channel image (above) revealed the vivid signature of iron and/or copper... Read More
GOES-15 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) revealed the interesting convergence of an undular bore (which was propagating northwestward) and a von Karman vortex street (which was moving southeastward, downwind of Guadeloupe Island) on 20 June 2012. Both... Read More
On June 20, 2012, the GOES-13 Sounder Filter Wheel mechanism suffered an anomaly. The filter wheel moves the spectral filters into the optical path of sensed radiation. As a result of the anomaly, data quality was degraded starting at about 1248 UTC. Instrument recovery activities occurred at 1756 UTC on 20... Read More
The image above from the SSEC Web Map Service (WMS) shows visible imagery of Tropical Storm Chris over the central Atlantic on June 20th, just south of the north wall of the Gulf Stream. Sea-surface temperatures are indicated by the color shading. The projected path of the storm, and the cone of uncertainty... Read More
