Author Archives: admin

New Mexico’s Whitewater-Baldy and Colorado’s High Park Fires: Case(s) of the “Disappearing Smoke” – Differences in Visible Smoke Detection – GOES 15 vs GOES 13

Posted on June 25, 2012 by admin

Louie Grasso and Jeff Braun Updated June 25, 2012 Now: The Whitewater-Baldy Fire was a very large wildfire that existed over southwestern New Mexico during the last couple of weeks of May and into June 2012.  At nearly 300, 000 … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire Weather, GOES, GOES R, GOES-R Proving Ground, Miscellaneous, Satellites | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Puget Sound Convergence Zone in Action

Posted on January 17, 2012 by admin

By J.Braun An impressive overrunning snow event is on tap for much of western Washington Tuesday, January 17th with bands of snow showers moving inland across northwestern Washington.  The (mainly) snow shower activity has increased in coverage as mid level … Continue reading →

Posted in Coastal Effects, Orographic Effects, Winter Weather | Leave a comment

Synthetic Cloud Top Heights

Posted on November 15, 2010 by admin

by Louie Grasso, Dan Lindsey, Jeff Braun Cloud tops heights, an important forecast parameter, is being generated from the NSSL 4km WRF-ARW real-time run.  At CIRA we have been generating synthetic GOES-R imagery from this real-time model since spring 2010.  … Continue reading →

Posted in GOES R, GOES-R Proving Ground, Miscellaneous, Satellites | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

United Airlines Flight 967 – Severe Turbulence, July 20, 2010

Posted on July 29, 2010 by admin

Jeff Braun and Dan Lindsey NOAA/RAMMB CIRA/CSU ***(Also, please see addendum near the end of this message) The following are a sequence of GOES-13 visible images from 19:45 UTC on 20 July 2010 to 00:45 UTC on 21 July 2010. … Continue reading →

Posted in Aviation Weather, Convection, Destructive Winds, GOES, GOES R, GOES-R Proving Ground, Miscellaneous, Problems in Forecasting, Satellites, Severe Weather, Turbulence | Tagged , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Oil and Water Really Don’t Mix

Posted on April 30, 2010 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

Posted in Fire Weather, GOES, Miscellaneous, MODIS | Tagged , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment