5-minute CONUS Sector GOES-18 (GOES-West) Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) and Fire Mask derived product images (above) displayed a pronounced thermal signature associated with Episode 19 of the ongoing eruption in the Halema’uma’u crater (located within the Kilauea summit caldera) on the Big Island of Hawai’i, which began around 0728 UTC... Read More

When Himawari-10 launches (currently scheduled for late 2028/early 2029), it will carry the GHMS, the Geostationary HiMawari Sounder, planned to give hourly sounder imagery (with more frequent observations — about 4 per hour — in smaller targetable domains, including one over Japan.) The Sounder will observe with about 4-km spatial resolution... Read More