SpaceX launched the Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission from Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 1922 UTC on 30 May 2020. 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) Lower-level (7.3 µm), Mid-level (6.9 µm) and Upper-level (6.2 µm) Water Vapor images (above) showed the thermal signature of hot combustion byproducts (water vapor and carbon dioxide) in the wake of... Read More
An ABI hot (bright) spot is not a fire when it’s a fleet of solar farms. For example, recall the CIMSS Satellite Blog entry regarding solar farms in California. Note how some reflections are so bright that the ABI reports dark surrounding pixels. This is part of the remapping process from detector to pixel... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images revealed ribbons of dry air wrapping around and within the circulation of an occluded Gale Force low (surface analyses) in the Gulf of Alaska on 28 May 2020. In the corresponding Air Mass RGB images, these ribbons of dry air exhibited darker shades of red —... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed Tropical Storm Bertha as it moved inland across South Carolina on 27 May 2020. The clusters of deep convection rapidly dissipated after landfall, revealing the low-level circulation. Bertha did produce heavy rainfall and high winds.A GMI Microwave (85 GHz) image at 1416 UTC from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones... Read More
