The Community Software Processing Package (CSPP) includes Flood Detection algorithms that can be applied to VIIRS data at Direct Broadcast sites (such as at CIMSS). The daytime NOAA-20 orbit over California on 22 January 2023 overflew mostly clear skies, resulting in the True Color and False Color imagery shown above, and the diagnosed regions of floods, mainly in the Sacramento and San Joaquin... Read More

GOES-16 (GOES-East) Near-Infrared “Snow/Ice” (1.61 µm) images (above) displayed industrial plumes (from sources such as power plants) that produced brief periods of light snow as they drifted over a few sites in northern Wisconsin on 22 January 2023. Particles emitted from industrial stacks acted as cloud condensation nuclei, “seeding” the surrounding supercooled water cloud... Read More