Regional and Mesoscale Meteorology Branch

2022-04-28

New Features

• Added Country Labels, State/Province Labels, and U.S. County Labels as map overlays (in beta – please report any problems you notice!)

2022-03-17

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where unhiding a product while paused would show that product at the last time it was visible instead of the current time
• Fixed a bug where auto-refresh would not show the latest time when looping is paused

2022-02-16

New Features

• Upgraded SLIDER processing and website to new servers

2021-07-30

New Features

• Added colorbars for the following products:
  • Nighttime Microphysics (EUMETSAT) (Guide)
  • Day Snow/Fog (EUMETSAT/NASA SPoRT) (Guide)
  • Dust (EUMETSAT) (Guide)
  • Ash (EUMETSAT) (Guide)
  • SO₂ – Sulfur Dioxide (JMA) (Guide)

2021-07-16

New Features

• Added an announcement feature to communicate important messages (outages, etc.) to SLIDER users

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where overlays missing images near the end of a loop would prevent the loop from starting

2021-07-08

New Features

• Updated labels of Day/Night Band: 0.7 µm products to “ERF-scaling” (formerly “Low Light Visible”) and “Near Constant Contrast”

2021-07-07

New Features

• Added an auto-refresh button which, when checked, will regularly check for new data and automatically load it when available
• Added a new product for Polar SLIDER: Near Constant Contrast
• Increased the number of images and/or time steps needed to trigger the warning message for large data requests based on user feedback

2021-06-21

New Features

• Added a warning message when users request large amounts of data so that the number of images and/or time steps can be adjusted for better performance

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where removing a product could crash SLIDER and disable the hide feature of other products

2021-06-10

New Features

• Added an “overzoom” feature to allow two extra zoom levels beyond the maximum imagery resolution for a given satellite/sector combination:
  

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Safari users would see a very large missing image if a colorbar didn’t load that prevented zoom/move functionality

2021-06-01

New Features

• Added links to the new Release Notes page (this one!) and Twitter account

Bugfixes

• Fixed a bug where Firefox users couldn’t add text when using the drawing tool
• Fixed a bug where text could still be added after the drawing tool was closed
• Fixed a bug where the canvas drawing was using an outdated reference, resulting in image/animation downloads crashing if drawings existed

2021-05-28

New Features

• The Mouse Draw button will now open a menu allowing users to select from Pen, Arrow, Text, or Erase tools; the color and width settings have also moved to this new menu:
  
  • Arrow: Draw freely as your normally would, and when you release the mouse button an arrowhead will be drawn
  • Text: Click where you’d like the text to begin on the left (it will be vertically centered), enter text into the prompt, and your text will appear
  • Erase: Drag the mouse across the drawing you’d like to erase (Tip: increasing the drawing width will likely make this feature easier-to-use)
  • An example showing each new tool
    
    
• New colorbars for a verity of products have been added

Bugfixes

• The “Switch to km/mi.” button is now visible if the user is zoomed out but has activated Query Lat/Lon so distance measurements can be toggled
• If the sector changes and x/y values result in imagery that is entirely offscreen (e.g. manually changing the url from full_disk to mesoscale_01), SLIDER will return the imagery to its default position for that sector