Isolated ASCAT wind maxima and Himawari-9 imagery
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Metop-B and Merop-C overflew the same region of the tropical western Pacific to the east of Guam on 21 August 2023, as shown above (imagery dowloaded from the ‘manati’ website). Metop-C imagery is from 1041 UTC, Metop-B from 1128 UTC. There are two wind maxima in both plots, centered near 13oN,... Read More