Lee-side frontal gravity wave over New Mexico and Texas
A lee-side frontal gravity wave was seen on GOES-12 6.5µm “water vapor” imagery (above; Java animation) — this feature was associated with a cold frontal boundary that was... Read More
A lee-side frontal gravity wave was seen on GOES-12 6.5µm “water vapor” imagery (above; Java animation) — this feature was associated with a cold frontal boundary that was... Read More
The long nights of winter can be ideal for the formation of fog. Clear, calm conditions are conducive to strong radiational cooling, and if the cooling occurs over a moist surface, cooling to the dewpoint is likely and fog may be a result. Once fog has formed over a location,... Read More
It’s straightforward to differentiate between high clouds and the ground in infrared satellite imagery because of large temperature differences. As clouds get closer and closer to the surface, their temperature gets closer and closer to the surface temperature, and brightness temperature differences can become insignifcant. At night, when visible data... Read More
Beginning on 23 August, the GOES-10 satellite was placed into continuous Super Rapid Scan Operations (SRSO) mode, providing images at 1-minute intervals over a limited region of the US. 02 October was the final day of GOES-10 SRSO, and some of the interesting... Read More