The National Weather Service forecast office on Guam (at 13.4oN, 144.7oW) is paired with an L/X band satellite receiver that can download data from Polar Orbiting satellites, which data can subsequently be processed by Polar2Grid software to produce useful products. The animation above shows 4 different Himawari-9 Band 13 images... Read More
CSPP Geosphere, often featured on this blog, is a website which allows users to view near-real-time imagery of GOES-East and GOES-West ABI data. All sixteen spectral bands on the ABI are available to view, along with RGB imagery. Full disk products are available, along with Continental United States (CONUS) and the... Read More
GOES-West imagery, above, from the CSPP Geosphere site, shows Hawaii in a tradewind regime (direct link to animation). The animation, from 0121 to 0556 UTC on 21 September 2023, shows the steady progression of cloud lines moving east-to-west, with embedded regions of apparent showers that generate outflow boundaries. At 0431 UTC, Sentinel-1A overflew the eastern Hawai’ian... Read More
1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-16 (GOES-East) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images (above) included time-matched (+/- 3 minutes) plots of SPC Storm Reports — which showed severe thunderstorms that moved eastward and southeastward across parts of Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas on 19 September 2023.1-minute GOES-16 “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (below) indicated that the coldest pulsing overshooting tops associated many of the... Read More
