Consider the animations of GOES West 1.61 µm imagery over Mauna Loa on 7 December (above) and 8 December (below). The bright area in the 1.61 µm show regions where very hot lava is emitting detectable amounts of near-infrared radiation. The area of those hot regions has decreased between 7... Read More
Geo2grid software is being updated and version 1.1 will be released shortly. [Update: it is now available here] Users will notice some added features (for example, support for GLM display, and support for some Level 2 products, and GOES-18, Himawari-9 and AGRI data), and will also note faster execution times.... Read More
Mostly clear skies over the Gulf of Mexico early on 7 December 2022 allowed for data from the VIIRS instrument on Suomi-NPP to be used to create a near-complete image of the ACSPO (Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean) sea-surface temperatures over the Gulf of Mexico (Click here to see the... Read More
GOES-17 (GOES-West) Upper-level Water Vapor (6.2 µm) images (above) include contours of AK-NAM40 model Max Wind isotachs — and showed the flow associated with an anomalously-strong jet stream, with its axis located just off the Arctic coast of Alaska on 03 December 2022.Plots of Utqiagvik (Barrow, PABR) rawinsonde data from 1200 UTC... Read More
