canada_smoke

GOES reveals atmospheric transport,    
such as the smoke from fires in northern Ontario,    
and 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 fore casting

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 minit by minit 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

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 passage across mid-Atlantic,   
they draw energy from the warm waters,   
of the Caribbean Sea and 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,      
and 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 minit by minit imagery,
could reveal about hurricane development.

This GOES clip was shown on national TV on the day it was taken!


luis_winds

With minit by minit 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 minit!



   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 of TIME, but was bumped by Gates.   
It almost made the cover of LIFE, but was bumped by the Kennedys. 
 
Eventually, Floyd made a cover story, and it was   
followed by many more GOES "cover girls"   
on popular science magazines and educational publications,   
not to mention checkout stands and comics.
   
GOES images of hurricanes are emblematic   
of the hazards of El Nee Nioh.
   
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 blame 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 Montserrat,   
using warmer colors for lower-level ash clouds.
   
These ash clouds can stop jet engines from working!

Some ice-topped clouds get colorized too.    



   colorado

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.