GOES-15 Results
last updated 1 January 2012
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- 12-01-01@0000 (0.1 MB JPG) 1 January 2012 @ 0000 UTC.
Happy New Year from GOES-WEST to all the calendar-digit buffs.
Blizzard in New Mexico (3 MB MOV) 15-20 December 2011
GOES-15's first major job as GOES-WEST was to monitor the development of an early winter storm in the American Southwest, which developed as a large low pressure system over the ocean south of Los Angeles and then turned into a multi-state blizzard in northern New Mexico and the Texas/Oklahoma panhandles.
- GOES-15 moves WEST (5 MB MOV) 6-15 December 2011.
Operational weather satellites must keep supplying data, even while being replaced. In this case, GOES-15 takes pictures of the western USA as it is moved westward to the operational GOES-WEST observing station at 135W during the week of 6-15 December 2011. During that week, the images do not register with the expected background color map for the GOES-WEST viewpoint. Initially, the cloud images appear 5 degrees west of the anticipated map, but they gradually move eastward into registration. The digital images are numerically navigated in once-a-day steps. In the movie, the coast of California/Baja appears to jump eastward each day. The movie is taken from the GOES-15 hourly images, except for the first image, which is the last one ever from GOES-11 at 135W.
First full-disk infrared images from GOES-15, at 1730 UTC on 26 April 2010.
The composites are made by using the 3.9 micron infrared channel to colorize high clouds as blue, low clouds as yellow, and cool surface waters as blue.
First full-disk visible image from GOES-15, at 1730-1800 UTC on 6 April 2010.
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