GOES-16 (GOES-East) nighttime Cloud Thickness and daytime “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) displayed a narrow band of marine stratus/fog that was moving southward along the East Coast of the US on 23 March 2021. Plots of Ceiling and Visibility showed that some sites along the coasts of New York, New... Read More

This blog posts describes how to use NOAA’S CLASS (Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System) system (link) that contains Level-2 GLM data, (under the GOES-R Series GLM L2+ Data Product (GRGLMPROD) tab) to create useable GLM imagery. GLM processing produces three Level 2 files each minute, and those files can be processed to produce imagery. First, choose... Read More