The GOES-12 Sounder has sent its last data, ending more than 12 years of service. The GOES-12 Sounder was turned off at 1100 UTC on 13 August. GOES-12 was launched on July 23, 2001, and GOES-12 transmitted data from 16 August 2001 – 7 January 2002, and then more or... Read More

A comparison of AWIPS images of 1-km resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel and 11.45 µm IR channel data at 18:35 UTC on 15 August 2013 (above) showed a number of organized clusters of deep convection which where generally located along... Read More

An animation of 0.63 µm visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as a QuickTime movie) from the GOES-14 satellite (which was in SRSO-R mode, providing images at 1-minute intervals) captured the dissipation of nocturnal... Read More

SRSO-R GOES-14 1-minute imagery shows the dynamic nature of the cirrus canopy over developing convection. Strong convection over Montana includes multiple overshooting tops that are visible in the GOES-14 imagery. Routine GOES-15 imagery, also shown, lacks the temporal resolution to capture the growth and decay of many cloud-top features. This is... Read More