NOAA-20’s early afternoon pass over Lake Erie on 2 December 2020 produced a stunner of an image. Snow surrounds the open lake, a result of the first widespread storm of the season over the eastern Great Lakes.This image was created using Polar2Grid and Direct Broadcast data at the UW-Madison CIMSS. ... Read More
A very large iceberg broke off the Larsen-C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula in July 2017 (recall this CIMSS Satellite Blog post, or this more recent post). While NOAA’s GOES-16 ABI visible sensors may not be ideal, they can monitor the iceberg’s location if the cloud cover is not too thick, as shown in the... Read More
CIMSS provides sectorized VIIRS true-color imagery for each of the five Great Lakes, and for the entire Great Lakes basin at the Direct Broadcast ftp site (ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/eosdb/j01/viirs/ and ftp://ftp.ssec.wisc.edu/pub/eosdb/npp/viirs for NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP, respectively). The imagery above shows NOAA-20 images saved from that site and merged together to make an... Read More
