More #highlatitudedust in #Greenland today! nice contrast of #MODIS and #VIIRS highlight the differences foam, sea-salt and dust aerosols , source is probabl mix of dust+snow @avoiland @jscarto @jobullard @TWMockford @HLCCD pic.twitter.com/xdm1RKoiBu — Santiago Gassó (@SanGasso) October 14, 2018 As noted by Santiago Gassó, a long and very narrow plume of... Read More
20 days after Leslie initially formed (and 17 days after it underwent extratropical transition), an Aqua MODIS True Color Red-Green-Blue (RGB) image viewed using RealEarth (above) showed the storm at 1419 UTC on 13 October 2018, when it was still classified as a Category 1 Hurricane off the coast of Portugal.... Read More
The VIIRS (Visible-Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite) instrument onboard NOAA-20 includes a Day Night Band that can be used to assess, among other things, power outages after a strong storm such as Hurricane Michael. The toggle above shows Day Night Band imagery from 6 October (before Michael) and 12 October (after Michael), and the... Read More
A sequence of Infrared Window images from Terra/Aqua MODIS (11.0 µm) and NOAA-20/Suomi NPP VIIRS (11.45 µm) (above) showed Category 4 Hurricane Michael as it was making its approach toward the Florida coast during the nighttime hours preceding sunrise on 10 October 2018. The yellow pixels east of the eye on the 0724 UTC VIIRS image highlighted... Read More
