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- Different ways to see snow with GOES-16 imagery & RGBs – by Ed Szoke & Dan Bikos
- Can GLM Total Lightning help with warning for non-supercell (landspout) tornadoes? A case from Iowa on 29 May 2019.
- Blowing Dust associated with 10-11 April 2019 Central US Strong Cyclone
- Rapid ice cover development over the eastern Great Lakes in late January 2019
- Daytime fog over snow in Wyoming on 21 November 2018
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GOES-14 SRSOR 1-minute visible imagery for 19 May 2015 over Texas
GOES-14 will be in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode between 18 May – 12 June, 2015. This special mode allows for 1-minute temporal imagery for GOES, similar to what will be available when GOES-R becomes available in … Continue reading
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Synthetic imagery from the 4-km NSSL WRF-ARW model for the 22 April 2015 severe weather event
This blog entry consists of a youtube video: http://youtu.be/2-3xVFXdw-o
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10 November 2014 Colorado Dust Storm Matched to Aircraft Photo
By Steve Miller (CIRA) This blog entry is in Powerpoint show format, click on the link below to view the Powerpoint show: Powerpoint show file
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Leeside cold front of 10 November 2014: Blowing dust and deep-tropospheric gravity waves
A strong cold front pushed southward across the Plains during the day on November 10, 2014. The temperature gradient across the front was quite dramatic, as seen by the surface observations at 23:00 UTC: Visible imagery from GOES-East during the … Continue reading
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Convective Initiation Application via the Split Window Difference product
One of the exciting new products that will be available on GOES-R is the split window difference (SWD) which is simply the difference between the 10.35 micron and 12.3 micrometer channels. This channel difference has been shown to provide information … Continue reading
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GOES-14 SRSO for 11 May 2014 Severe Weather Event
GOES-14 was operating on super rapid scan operations schedule for May 11, 2014, meaning that images were being taken every 1 minute. This high temporal resolution data will be routinely available for severe weather events with GOES-R, therefore it is … Continue reading
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Great Lakes Ice Cover
The exceptionally cold winter over the Great Lakes region has led to relatively high ice coverage across the Great Lakes. The GLERL analysis of ice cover percentage across the Great Lakes is 91% as of March 4: To put this … Continue reading
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Orographic Cirrus of 18 December 2013
Orographic cirrus (i.e., mountain wave) clouds can have a significant influence on temperature forecasts, particularly during the cold season when a reduction in insolation can drastically affect temperatures during the daytime. On December 18, 2013 the CIRA synthetic 4-km NSSL-WRF … Continue reading
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