Month: April 2010

Oil and Water Really Don’t Mix

by on April 30th, 2010

By J. Braun Additional information/images from  – Steven Miller, Bernie Connell, Dan Lindsey, and NASA Figure 1(above). Eleven crew members of the state of the art floating oil rig “Deepwater Horizon” are now presumed dead following an explosion on the rig which then caught fire, burned for two days, then sank in 5,000 ft of water Continue Reading

Fire Weather GOES Miscellaneous MODIS

Is it Real, or is it…Synthetic GOES-R Imagery?

by on April 28th, 2010

Jeff Braun, Louie Grasso and Dan Lindsey As part of the GOES-R Proving Ground activities, synthetic GOES-R imagery has been produced from model output run at the National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). This model is being run with horizontal grid spacing of 4 km over the continental United States during the spring of 2010. An automated system Continue Reading

GOES GOES R GOES-R Proving Ground Miscellaneous Severe Weather Tornadoes

MODIS Longwave channel difference of Gulf Stream and Labrador currents

by on April 7th, 2010

Jeff Braun and Louie Grasso Figures 1-4 show Modis images at 3.9, 8.53, 11.02, and 12.03 µm, respectively at 1825 UTC on 6 April 2010. Off the east coast of the United States, two ocean currents are evident in the imagery: The cool, southward flowing, Labrador current and the warm, northerly flowing, Gulf Stream. All Continue Reading

Coastal Effects GOES-R Proving Ground MODIS Satellites