GOES-17 (GOES-West) True Color RGB images created using Geo2Grid (above) showed a widespread pall of smoke covering much of southern Alaska — from above-normal fire activity during the preceding several days, amid drought conditions — along with the growth of new smoke plumes from many of the larger fires later in... Read More

This post explores data-filling methods for missing data in a GOES-17 Level 1B radiance time series dataset.Background: SSEC’s Data Center is home to a near complete record of GOES-16 and GOES-17 Full Disk Level 1B data. With these data capabilities, it is possible to compile a time series or ‘short climatology’ of GOES data... Read More

GOES-18  images in this blog post are preliminary and non-operational GOES-18 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm), Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.35 µm) images (above) showed the formation of a small pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) cloud — generated by a wildfire that was burning near the northwest coast of Great... Read More

The radar at NWS Grand Junction, Colorado (KGJT) was down for scheduled maintenance in late June 2022 — and on 23 June, overlapping 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sectors provided 30-second GOES-17 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above), which showed the development of thunderstorms across a portion of their County Warning Area (which includes eastern Utah and western Colorado)... Read More