GOES-18 (GOES-West) Air Mass RGB images during the 15-19 February 2023 period (above) displayed the migration of a Kona Low from north of the main Hawaiian Island chain on 15 February toward Johnston Island on 19 February. The MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (below) showed that the circulation of this Kona Low helped to draw... Read More
True Color RGB mages — created using Geo2Grid — from GOES-18 (GOES-West), GOES-17 and GOES-16 (GOES-East) (above) displayed the hazy signature of blowing dust associated with a Tehuano wind event, which was spreading south-southwestward from the Gulf of Tehuantepec across the Pacific Ocean on 18 February 2023. A narrow rope cloud... Read More
Sentinel-1A SAR data just before sunrise captured a very narrow region of enhanced winds just south of the Rio Grande delta on 18 February 2023, as shown above in a toggle with the 1226 UTC GOES-16 Band 13 Clean Window infrared (10.3 µm) imagery. There appears to be no obvious... Read More
New software now in use at CIMSS combines JPSS Raw Data Records (RDRs) from Suomi-NPP or from NOAA-20, created at different direct broadcast antenna sites (for example, at CIMSS (data link for NOAA-20; data link for Suomi NPP) — and at AOML in Miami), into a single RDR that includes data that can span roughly 1/4 of a JPSS... Read More
