{"id":56734,"date":"2024-12-31T23:51:00","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T23:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=56734"},"modified":"2025-01-02T17:40:17","modified_gmt":"2025-01-02T17:40:17","slug":"here-goes-the-2024-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/56734","title":{"rendered":"Here GOES the 2024 Review"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A selection of several GOES ABI loops during 2022<\/a> and 2023<\/a> showcased the diverse range of features observed, which included volcanic ash plumes<\/a>, hurricanes<\/a>, convection<\/a>, fog<\/a>, smoke<\/a>, fires<\/a>, dust<\/a> and ice<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

It\u2019s very hard to choose just one event from every month of the year, but the goal here is to show a variety of phenomena and locations that NOAA<\/a>\u2018s GOES ABI<\/a> routinely monitors, in this case during 2024. Most loops generated are from the University of Wisconsin-Madison CIMSS<\/a> Satellite Blog<\/a>, which is linked to in the titles at the top of each monthly entry. Imagery from GOES-16 and -18 (and -19) are showcased, along with the ABI’s sectors: Full Disk (10-min intervals), Contiguous U.S. (5-min intervals) and Mesoscale sectors (30-sec to 1-min intervals).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Full Disk CIMSS true color composite, most days of 2024, around 17 UTC. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Similar loop as above, but with a 1-min duration<\/a>. Note that for several days in March that 16 UTC images were used. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-18 Full Disk true color (Rayleigh corrected) composite, most days of 2024, around 17 UTC. (Click to Play)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Similar as above, but over 1-min<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

January Single-banded snow squall along the length of Lake Michigan<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
GOES-16 ABI Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB, 1401-2202 UTC on 19 January 2024 (Click to Play)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The mesovortices were also well forecast and observed by radar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

February<\/strong> The Smokehouse Creek Fire<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB over north Texas. Click to Play. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Fire Temperature RGB over north Texas 15:06 UTC 27 February 2024 \u2013 03:31 UTC 28 February 2024 as shown in AWIPS<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The above animation<\/a> (and as an animated gif<\/a>). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

March SpaceX Starship Test Flight 3<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
1-minute GOES-16 images of ABI spectral bands 01-16 and a Rocket Plume RGB, from 13:24-13:29 UTC on 14 March (Click to Play).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Note that each of the ABI spectral bands could see a signal of the SpaceX rocket launch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus material<\/strong>: A SUVI Animation<\/a> when the Sun was being eclipsed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

SUVI animation as the moon moves between the satellite and the Sun. (Click to Play)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The sun eclipsed by the moon as seen in a mp4 animation<\/a>. Near realtime SUVI<\/a> images: SSEC<\/a> and SWPC<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

April Time Composite Imagery of the Total Solar Eclipse<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The Moon’s shadow during the total solar eclipse was observed by many ABI spectral bands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Time composited (minimum value) ABI band 3 imagery (every 10 min) from 2017, 2024 and both.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus material<\/strong>: 1-min Mesoscale Sector<\/a> (with 5-min CONUS sectors) of an enhanced ABI band 3 (0.86 um) following the shadow:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 ABI Band 3 enhanced to highlight the eclipse shadow. These are 1-minute Mesoscale sectors over the 5-minute CONUS sectors, tracking the shadow every minute as it moves across North America. (Animation from M. Gunshor, UW\/CIMSS).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

May Hail swath across the Texas Panhandle<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 (GOES-East)<\/em> Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/strong><\/a> images showed a thunderstorm that moved southeast from the New Mexico \/ Texas border across the southern Texas Panhandle Plains on 29 May 2024. A narrow northwest-to-southeast oriented hail swath produced by this storm  \u2014 from south of Clovis, New Mexico to south of Lubbock, Texas \u2014 showed up as pale shades of beige. The Land Surface Temperature derived product showed cooling in the hail swath of more than 10F.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Nighttime Microphysics RGB images on May 29, 2024. (Click to play)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus material<\/strong>: River valley fog in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to the long forgotten fog in many river valleys in BAMS (1989) observed by GOES-7<\/a>, GOES-16 showed narrow tendrils of river valley fog \u2014 along a portion of the Mississippi River and a few of its tributaries in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Iowa. The derived fog and low stratus product<\/a> also monitored the fog, while showing the need for improved spatial resolutions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 \u201cRed\u201d Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) images on May 5, 2024, without\/with plots of 15-minute METAR surface reports. Click to Play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

June<\/strong> GOES-U Rocket Launch<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The GOES-U rocket launch was monitored by both GOES-18 ABI (30-sec) and GOES-16 (1-min), these were research Mesoscale Sector requests. Note that not only was the launch and rocket separation seen, but also the booster rockets re-burn when returning to land at the Kennedy Space Center! GOES-U became GOES-19 after successfully reaching geostationary orbit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

30-second GOES-East imagery showing the thermal signature of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket boosters as it launched GOES-U from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, June 25, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
GOES-U Rocket launch and the booster re-entry (in white circle) as seen by GOES-16 ABI meso-sector scans on June 25, 2024. Click to Play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus material<\/strong>: Haboob in New Mexico<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-18 Meso (1-min) imagery, CIMSS true color during the day and the “dust” RGB during the night on June 19\/20, 2024. Click to Play. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Double Bonus<\/strong>: SUVI (Solar) Imagery<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 6 bands of the SUVI, once per day, from May 16 to June 11, 2024. Click to Play.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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July Hurricane Beryl in the central Caribbean as a Category 5 storm<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The earliest Cat 5 Atlantic basin hurricane as seen with 1-min GOES-16 imagery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Band 13 (Clean Window infrared, 10.35 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 0844-1253 UTC 2 July 2024 (Click to play)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus material<\/strong>: Mesovortices seen within the eye in the ABI high resolution visible band.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Band 2 (Red Visible, 0.64 \u00b5m) imagery, 10:49 -13:18 UTC 2 July 2024 (Click to play)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

August Tornado in Buffalo New York<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The storms associated with a weak tornado (at 16:49 UTC<\/a>) in Buffalo New York were monitored by GOES. The Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB is shown, demonstrating the glaciation of the clouds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector Day Cloud Phase Distinction RGB, 14 -19 UTC on 5 August 2024 (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong> – Gravity waves in the Midwest. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-16 Upper Level Water Vapor (Band 8, 6.19 \u00b5m) infrared imagery, 06:11-16:11 UTC on 5 August 2024 (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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September Early (Preliminary \/ Non-operational) GOES-19 Imagery<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

During September, GOES-19 ABI continued to collect imagery from it’s location at approximately 90W and the equator. The ABI has 2 visible, 4 near-IR (or near-visible) and 10 IR bands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 16 spectral bands of the (Preliminary\/Non-operational) early GOES-19 ABI from September 27 to October 1, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong> – Mesoscale imagery of Helene<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

October Annular Eclipse Shadow in the Southern Hemisphere<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

On October 2, 2024 several of the geostationary imagers observed the Moon’s shadow in the Southern Hemisphere. An example from the ABI on GOES-19 is below. A CIMSS true color loop doesn’t create the artificial colors that can happen in Raleigh-corrected composite imagery. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-19 (Preliminary, Non-operational) ABI Full Disk CIMSS true color animation from October 2, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

November Prolonged eruptive period of Popocat\u00e9petl in Mexico<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

A prolonged eruptive period of Popocat\u00e9petl<\/strong><\/a> occurred during 22 October – 4 November 2024. Ash RGB<\/strong><\/a> images showed the periodic pulses of ash from Popocat\u00e9petl.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-19 ABI (Preliminary, Non-operational) “ash” RGB from October 22 to November 4, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

A number of derived products, such as a radiometrically-retrieved Ash Height product from the NOAA\/CIMSS Volcanic Cloud Monitoring<\/strong><\/a> site showed that the volcanic plume occasionally reached altitudes of 12 km or greater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong> – Power Plant Plume Produces Precipitation<\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-19 (Preliminary, non-operational) cloud phase distinction over western WI on November 28, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

According to Scott Bachmeier, CIMSS “The Nighttime Microphysics RGB<\/a> did a good job of highlighting the industrial plume \u2014 then after sunrise, True Color RGB imagery showed that the plume had seeded the cloud layer enough to cause it to dissipate as it produced the snowfall (sort of like the aircraft-induced “fall streak” effect).”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

December Combined GOES West and East IR images<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

While the animation below does not start in the month of December, it does end in that month. This is a combined GOES-West and East ABI band 13 composite image, in a Mollweide projection. This loop shows hourly data, as does this near realtime web page<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

GOES-18\/16 ABI longwave window composite imagery, starting on June 1, 2024. (Click to Play.)<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Similar animations as above, from June 1 to December 13, but with playback durations of 1<\/a> and 2<\/a> minutes. The location of 7-day (hourly) animations<\/a> for a few of the ABI bands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar loop as above, but showing almost all of 2024. Note: large mp4 file<\/a>. Or a smaller, once per day mp4<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bonus<\/strong> – Blowing Snow RGB from GOES-19<\/a> ABI (by Bill Line<\/a>) — CIMSS Satellite Blog post on Blowing Snow<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Double Bonus<\/strong> – Severe weather across the Bay Area of California<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

H\/T<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to all who make the GOES imagery possible, the ingest and software to display the imagery (including, but not limited to McIDAS-X<\/a>, geo2grid<\/a>, geosphere<\/a>, Real Earth<\/a> and AWIPS<\/a>) and all who generated CIMSS Satellite Blog entries, especially Scott Lindstrom<\/a> and Scott Bachmeier<\/a>. Special thanks to Mat Gunshor and Jim Nelson of the UW\/CIMSS AWG Imagery Team. T. Schmit<\/a> works for NOAA\/NESDIS\/STAR, is stationed in Madison WI, and will be retiring from federal service at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A similar \u2018Year in Review\u2019 for 2021<\/a>; 2022<\/a> by NOAA Satellites<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also, some \u201ctop 25\u201d GOES-16<\/a> and GOES-17<\/a> ABI loops. Also see the Satellite Liaison Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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