canada_smoke

GOES reveals atmospheric transport,		    
such as the smoke from fires in northern Ontario    
wafted across the entire northeast USA.		    
Remote fires, flaring up every afternoon,	    
are detected by the GOES shortwave infrared channel.
In the nighttime view, the low-light channel	    
from the DMSP satellite is inserted		    
to show what could be done by GOES-NEXT.     


first_g12

GOES watches active volcanoes
GOES monitors fragile cloud cover
GOES was used in forecasts at the Winter Olympics
GOES watches the stormy Midwest
GOES monitors Cape Canaveral during Shuttle launches
GOES is vital to tropical storm forecasting
All in a day's work


florida_color

To demonstrate what could be done with GOES-NEXT,
experimental rapid-scan data from GOES		 
is overlaid on a real-color image of Florida.    

florida_gray

This continuous rapid-scan experiment 
shows what minute-by-minute GOES imagery	  
can reveal about Florida thunderstorms'		  
ability to trigger more thunderstorms.            

goes_launch

GOES-12 is a backup satellite
pre-planned self-insurance
GOES-M was labeled "launch failure" in the schedule.
Launch control was told:
    "Don't take that literally"

hurr_crop_spot

This animation shows the mid-atmospheric flow		   
using images taken every 3 hours in the GOES water vapor channel   
during the busy hurricane season of 1995.		   
Each named storm is labeled and highlighted.		   
Most storms form in "hurricane alley",			   
a series of storms spawned off Africa			   
and blown to the west by the trade winds.		   
If they survive passege across mid-Atlantic,		   
they draw energy from the warm waters		   
of the Caribbean Sea and/or Gulf Stream.			   
In 1995, there were many large hurricanes.		   


At times, several occurred simultaneously. 
Hurricanes are usually blown back into the mid-Atlantic
by the prevailing westerlies from North America.	   
Otherwise, insurance companies would go broke!	   
When a hurricane forms in the Gulf of Mexico,		   
it must cross over land on its way out.			   
GOES most important job is monitoring hurricanes.             



   hurr_full

GOES has a water vapor channel				      
that shows the flow half-way up in the atmosphere	      
where the jet streams dominate.	      
The jets streams carry storms		      
from east-to-west near the equator,			      
from west-to-east nearer the poles,			      
with turbulent mixing in between.	      
There is a daily outburst of thunderstorms    
every afternoon over the warm land masses.		      
This GOES channel shows the large-scale flow and chaos	      
during the busy hurricane season of 1995.                     



   jarrell

An unstable front across Texas suddenly "unzipped" its energy 
spawning violent tornados				     
including one that wiped out the town of Jarrell.            


lake_effect

GOES is better than weather radar at seeing lake-effect snow


long_logo

 The GOES logo inverts,
just like the GOES-10 satellite.


luis_gray

This unique GOES rapid scan experiment					
showed what minute-by-minute imagery			
could reveal about hurricane development.				
This GOES clip was shown on national TV on the day it was taken!


luis_winds

With minute-by-minute observations from GOES,		   
computers can track every cloudtop in a hurricane,	   
providing winds with heights estimated			   
from the corresponding GOES infrared data.		   
Tracking every GOES pixel gives a million winds per minute!



   magazine_covers

GOES images are widely used by the press.			   
One of the most popular GOES enhanced images is hurricane Floyd.
It almost made the cover ot TIME, but was bumped by Gates.	   
It almost made the cover of LIFE, but was bumped by the Kennedys.  
Eventually, it made a cover story, and it was			   
followed by many more GOES "cover girls"			   
on popular science magazines and educational publications,	   
ot to mention checkout stands and comics.			   
GOES images of hurricanes are emblematic			   
of the hazards of El Ni–o.					   
Colorized GOES images are widely used to symbolize global values.



   mexico_fires

This GOES post-launch test image revealed	     
that smoke from wild fires in central Mexico 
caused air pollution in Oklahoma,
so the EPA should not fine Oklahoma.        



   mitch

GOES is the only way to monitor hurricanes  24 hours per day
In this case, two days of infrared data 
are enhanced with visible data during the day


montserrat

GOES has a pair of infrared channels		   
that show an unusual difference in temperature from volcanic ash	   
This GOES animation colorizes the ash		   
from persistent volcanic eruptions		   
on the Caribbean island of Montserat,		   
with warmer colors for lower-level ash clouds.	   
These ash clouds can stop jet engines from working!
Some ice-topped clouds get colorized too.    



   ok_tornado

To demonstrate what could be done with GOES-NEXT,	   
experimental rapid-scan data from GOES			   
is given a 3-D look based on infrared cloudtop temperature,
and overlaid on a real-color image of Colorado.