1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) displayed mesovortices over southern Lake Michigan on 21 January 2022. The formation of these mesovortex features was aided by a mid-lake convergence of surface winds, which was suggested by RAP40 surface wind fields and shown n more detail by Metop-C ASCAT... Read More
MIMIC Total Precipitable Water fields for the 24 hours ending 1700 UTC on 21 January, above, show abundant moisture flowing into southern Alaska. Hourly GOES-17 infrared imagery (Band 13 clean window infrared imagery at 10.3 µm), below, shows a large cyclonic circulation to the south and west of Alaska that is helping to... Read More
The Community Satellite Processing Package (CSPP) Algorithm Integration Team (AIT) has released a new version of processing software that creates (using updated Enterprise algorithms) Level 2 GOES-R products from radiance products. It also includes processing to provide Quick Look imagery for those products; that is, if you have the processed... Read More
GOES-16 (GOES-East) Mid-level Water Vapor (6.9 µm) images (above) revealed the formation of a standing wave cloud along the Minnesota shoreline of Lake Superior on 19 January 2022. This cloud feature was formed by a vertically-propagating internal gravity wave that resulted from the interaction of strong post-cold-frontal northwesterly winds with the topography of the shoreline... Read More
