1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) and Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images (above) showed the dense smoke plume and thermal anomalies (clusters of yellow to red to black pixels) associated with the SQF Complex of wildfires that had been burning since 24 August. Also evident in the Visible imagery was the presence of brighter white pyrocumulus... Read More

The Climate Prediction Center (CPC) Morphing (CMORPH) technique produces global estimates of hourly precipitation and those data are available in real time at this website. (Other JPSS/ABI-related flood products are available there as well). CMORPH uses microwave data from Polar Orbiters to estimate rainfall. Infrared information is related to those microwave... Read More