{"id":341,"date":"2012-01-06T23:34:09","date_gmt":"2012-01-06T23:34:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rammb.cira.colostate.edu\/research\/goes-r\/proving_ground\/blog\/?p=341"},"modified":"2026-03-06T09:05:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:05:41","slug":"cloud-over-snow-example-on-30-november-2010-from-buffalo-wfo-using-modis-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/2012\/01\/06\/cloud-over-snow-example-on-30-november-2010-from-buffalo-wfo-using-modis-imagery\/","title":{"rendered":"Cloud over snow example on 30 November 2011 from Buffalo WFO using MODIS imagery"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Buffalo WFO&nbsp;SOO David Zaff&nbsp;collected this imagery from one of the forecasters, Robert Hamilton,&nbsp;who sent him the following&nbsp;message: &#8220;I found it very interesting to see snow cover on the&nbsp;basic IR imagery late this afternoon, so I have attached both the IR and VIS imagery&nbsp;from 19z.&nbsp; &#8216;Sampling&#8217; over the snow&nbsp;cover on the IR imagery, I was getting consistent temps of -2&nbsp;to -3c, and when I moved off the snow cover to the dry land, I was getting&nbsp;readings of +2 to +3c.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After showing Paone (another forecaster), he went into the&nbsp;MODIS imagery and noted how well&nbsp;it was shown in both the&nbsp;Cloud\/Snow Discriminator image and the Cloud Layer\/Snow&nbsp;Discriminator image.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"907\" src=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/01\/4panelforblog1.png\" alt=\"The images saved by the Buffalo WFO have been assembled here in a 4-panel for comparison, with the oval highlighting the snow cover discussed in the above quote. Shown is a visible (upper left) and IR image (upper right), both at 1900 UTC, CIRA MODIS Cloud\/Snow Discrimination Image at 1625 UTC (lower left), and MODIS Cloud Layer\/Snow Discrimination Image at 1803 UTC (lower right). \" class=\"wp-image-342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/01\/4panelforblog1.png 960w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/01\/4panelforblog1-300x283.png 300w, https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/01\/4panelforblog1-768x726.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Figure 1. &nbsp;The images saved by the Buffalo WFO have been assembled here in a 4-panel for comparison, with the oval highlighting the snow cover discussed in the above quote. Shown is a visible (upper left) and IR image (upper right), both at 1900 UTC, CIRA MODIS Cloud\/Snow Discrimination Image at 1625 UTC (lower left), and MODIS Cloud Layer\/Snow Discrimination Image at 1803 UTC (lower right). <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buffalo WFO&nbsp;SOO David Zaff&nbsp;collected this imagery from one of the forecasters, Robert Hamilton,&nbsp;who sent him the following&nbsp;message: &#8220;I found it very interesting to see snow cover on the&nbsp;basic IR imagery late this afternoon, so I have attached both the IR and VIS imagery&nbsp;from 19z.&nbsp; &#8216;Sampling&#8217; over the snow&nbsp;cover on the IR imagery, I was getting [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":342,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-modis-snowcloud-discriminator"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=341"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1291,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/341\/revisions\/1291"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rammb2.cira.colostate.edu\/proving-ground-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}