Month: May 2016

Fort McMurray Wildfires and Near-Constant Contrast (NCC) Imagery

by Jorel Torres on May 27th, 2016

The Fort McMurray Wildfires started in the city of Fort McMurray, located in the northeastern part of Alberta, a province of Canada. The wildfires started 01 May 2016 and are still currently burning. The wildfires have burned over 1,200,000 plus acres of land and has reached into parts of western Saskatchewan. Over 2,400 plus homes and Continue Reading

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NUCAPS, Part One: Introduction

by Jorel Torres on May 4th, 2016

By Jorel Torres The National Weather Service (NWS) has over 120 WFO (Weather Forecast Office) locations across the CONtinental United States (CONUS) where only a certain percentage of these offices produce and display RAwinsonde OBservations (RAOB). RAOB’s are important real-time observations for NWS forecasters where RAOB’s display an atmospheric stability profile, producing atmospheric measurements from the Continue Reading

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