This is the first in a series of posts on the 2023 version of PHSnMWnABI modeling. CIMSS this year will again be supplying output to the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT, from late May through mid-June 2023) from a modeling system that includes Polar Hyperspectral Soundings (Infrared and Microwave) that are... Read More

When clear skies are present (at night!), the Nighttime Microphysics RGB provides little information about the overlying atmosphere. You might see nice Sea Surface Temperature gradients, as in the image below from the CSPP Geosphere site; the North Wall of the Gulf Stream is readily apparent to the east of North Carolina and Virginia.... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) included an overlay of GLM Flash Extent Density and surface fronts — which showed severe thunderstorms that developed across southern Oklahoma (along and ahead of a cold front) and North Texas (ahead of a dryline) during the afternoon and... Read More

Sentinel-1A overflew the Hawai’ian islands shortly before sunrise on 15 March and the derived winds from this descending pass are shown above (they are also available here, through this website). Southwesterly flow and the topography of Oahu has excited gravity waves that are observable downstream from the island in the SAR... Read More