GOES-17 (GOES-West) Mid-level (6.9 µm) Water Vapor images (above) revealed a complex pattern of middle-tropospheric vortices moving slowly west-southwestward over Interior Alaska and the Chukchi / Bering Seas on 09 November 2021. Note that the cold (brighter white) peaks of a few of the higher mountain ranges — including Denali — could... Read More

The Advanced Clear Sky Processor for Ocean algorithm is part of the Community Software Processing Package (CSPP), CIMSS-maintained software that can be applied to Direct Broadcast data, such as those data from NOAA-20 and Suomi-NPP (and other satellites) downloaded at two antennae at CIMSS. CSPP will create AWIPS-ready tiles so that SST information can be... Read More