McIDAS images of 4-km resolution GOES-15 6.5 µm water vapor channel data (above; click images to play animation) showed the dramatic signature of rapid intensification of a very large mid-latitude cyclone over the eastern Pacific Ocean during the 20 January – 23 January 2014 time period.A comparison of AWIPS images... Read More
McIDAS images of MTSAT-2 daytime 0.675 µm visible channel data and night-time 10.8 µm IR channel data (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 animation) showed a monsoon low which exhibited a well-defined circulation for several days as it... Read More
A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 µm visible channel data with the corresponding false-color “snow-vs-cloud discrimination” Red/Green/Blue (RGB) product (above) revealed numerous northwest-to-southeast oriented mesoscale bands of snow on the ground (varying shades of red on the RGB image) across much of Iowa extending into northern... Read More
United Airlines Flight 89 enroute from Newark, New Jersey to Beijing, China encountered severe turbulence at an altitude of 33,000 feet over Vermont (pilot report) around 18:31 UTC on 16 January 2014, which injured 5 flight attendants... Read More
