Starting on June 19, 2024, there was a large haboob (“wall of dust”) over New Mexico and nearby regions. This was captured by both GOES-18 (1-min “mesoscale”) and GOES-16 (5-min “Contiguous U.S.”) ABI imagery. What is shown is the CIMSS true color composite imagery during the day and the “dust” RGB at... Read More

1-minute Mesoscale Domain Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Day Fire RGB, Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm), and “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with overlays of the Fire Power and Fire Mask derived product (2 components of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) (above) displayed signatures of the South Fork Fire and Salt Fire, which started on 17 June 2024 near Ruisodo in southern New Mexico. The GOES-18 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared brightness temperature exhibited... Read More

10-minute Full Disk scan GOES-18 (GOES-West) “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images with an overlay of the Fire Mask derived product (a component of the GOES Fire Detection and Characterization Algorithm FDCA) and “Clean” Infrared Window (10.3 µm) images (above) showed 2 pulses of pyrocumulonimbus (pyroCb) clouds — exhibiting cloud-top infrared brightness temperatures in the... Read More

One of the products demonstrated at the Hazardous Weather Testbed (HWT) in Norman in May and June this year was GREMLIN (GOES Radar Estimation via Machine Learning to Inform NWP) a tool created with Machine Learning (by Kyle Hilburn at CIRA) to use ABI and GLM data to create synthetic... Read More