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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 →

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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 →

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

Posted on April 28, 2010 by admin

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 … Continue reading →

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Proving Ground: GOES-R ABI color imagery

Posted on February 26, 2010 by admin

J. Braun, Louie Grasso and Don Hillger When GOES-R becomes operational, one new capability that no other GOES satellite has had to date is the ability to produce geostationary color imagery. As a result, satellite detection of pollution and/or thin … Continue reading →

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Thunderstorm features through channel differencing in the GOES-R Proving Ground

Posted on February 24, 2010 by admin

J. Braun GOES-R ABI will have several channels in the window region from which channel difference products can be produced. Four channels, 8.5, 10.35, 11.2, and 12.3 µm can be differenced to produce a total of six difference images. In … Continue reading →

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