A sequence of 1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) images from all 16 ABI spectral bands along with Rocket Plume RGB images (above) displayed signatures of the launch of EUMETSAT MTG-I1 from the Guiana Space Centre near Kourou, French Guyana (synoptic station identifier 814030) on 13 December 2022. The Ariane-5 rocket booster’s hot thermal... Read More

As noted in this blog post, version 1.1 of geo2grid (available here!) includes support for reading AHI, AMI and AGRI data (in addition to ABI data) from JMA‘s Himawari-8 (and -9), KMA‘s GEOKOMPSAT-2 and CMA‘s FY4A (and FY4B), respectively. These multispectral imagers are similar — but not identical — as shown at the WMO OSCAR websites... Read More