CIMSS scientists have created a website that extracts from the Level 1b ABI files information on the global mean radiance (and maximum, and minimum radiances) for each of the 16 channels at this link. The figure above tracks the global mean temperature of the GOES-16 Band 8 (Upper Level Water Vapor,... Read More
As noted in the past blog post, the NWS Water Surface Conditions / Synthetic Aperture Radar Science Team has arranged for observations over the Samoan Islands on 9 dates between 30 January 2023 and 5 March 2023 (imagery is available online here). The image above shows both the derived winds and the Normalized Radar Cross Section (NRCS) from 0556... Read More
A NOAA-20 overpass across the Great Lakes on 2 February showed primarily clear skies over Lake Erie and western Lake Ontario, allowing for computation of ACSPO (Advanced Clear-Sky Processor for Ocean) Sea-Surface Temperatures. (Note that the colorbar has been rescaled from its default so that only values between 32 and 41o F (i.e., 0 and 5o... Read More
The Lightning Imaging Sensor (LIS) that flies on the International Space Station (ISS) observed about 20 individual flashes in about a minute to the east of Japan on 1 February 2023, as shown in the animation above. Himawari-9 Band 13 clean window infrared (10.41 µm) imagery, below, bracketing the lightning... Read More
