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ORI product for 18-20 December 2010 massive California rain event
A period of extremely heavy rain and massive higher elevation snow hit California and other portions of the West during mid-December 2010. Here we take a look at the ORI product for a portion of this storm, concentrating on Central … Continue reading
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Low cloud/fog example from Boulder WFO case from AWIPS on 9 December 2010
GeoColor and Low cloud/Fog GOES-R Proving Ground imagery from CIRA has been available at the Boulder WFO for several years. After feedback from the forecasters, recently GeoColor imagery without the city lights was added. This example shows both types of … Continue reading
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Cloud over snow example on 30 November 2011 from Buffalo WFO using MODIS imagery
Buffalo WFO SOO David Zaff collected this imagery from one of the forecasters, Robert Hamilton, who sent him the following message: “I found it very interesting to see snow cover on the basic IR imagery late this afternoon, so I have attached both the IR … Continue reading
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Synthetic IR imagery showing fog/low clouds from BOU WFO on 8 November 2011
This example from the Boulder WFO shows the use of synthetic IR imagery generated from the 4-km horizontal grid resolution NSSL WRF model for predicting an area of fog and low clouds near the Denver International Airport (DIA) on the … Continue reading
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Low cloud/fog early detection over Lake Erie on 16 March 2011 from WFO BUF
Sent to the BUF SOO by forecaster Kirk Apffel The new CIRA stratus/fog IR satellite worked well late afternoon/evening. It clearly showed low stratus and fog developing on Lake Erie, which was hardly visible on other products. It was useful … Continue reading
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Comparison of CIRA Dust Products for 27 Feb 2011 Eastern NM/West TX dust storm
Summary: (comments are given for each time) -Widespread blowing dust behind a strong dry line pushing across the western half of Texas -Compared the two CIRA dust products with AWIPS visible imagery for 3 times on 27 Feb 2011 -Also … Continue reading