GOES-16 (GOES-East) Low-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed a narrow filament of dry air over northern Wyoming and western South Dakota on the morning of 11 March 2019. A cold thermal signature of the Bighorn Mountains in northern Wyoming could be seen through this band... Read More
A persistent northward transport of anomalously-warm air across the Bering Sea during the month of February 2019 led to an unusual loss of sea ice there — daily images of GCOM-W1 AMSR2 Sea Ice Concentration (source) from 01 February to 09 March (above) showed the northward retreat of ice from... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm), Cloud Top Height, Cloud Particle Size Distribution, and Cloud Phase (above) helped to characterize standing wave clouds that developed to the lee of the Appalachian Mountains on 07 March 2019. The primary standing wave rotor clouds were composed of smaller supercooled water droplets, with “banner clouds” composed... Read More
The toggle above compares a CONUS Sector visible image (0.64 µm) over the Caribbean (at 1732 UTC) with a 1730 UTC Full Disk Legacy Atmospheric Profile (LAP) Derived Stability Lifted Index field. (A “Veggie” Band 03 0.86 µm image, here, means that coastlines need not be drawn in because of... Read More
