Re: GOES-13 out of service, hopefully temporarily
Posted by
cypresstx on 9/25/2012, 8:48 am
that also means 14 will not be able to do it's rapid scan stuff :( http://cimss.ssec.wisc.edu/goes/srsor/GOES-14_SRSOR.html
Max Mayfield blogged about it: http://www.local10.com/news/NOAA-satellite-turned-off-due-to-signal-noise/-/1717324/16723572/-/6nuxu9z/-/index.html
Jeff Masters also: http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?entrynum=2240
ClimateCentral.org: http://www.climatecentral.org/news/key-weather-satellite-goes-offline-may-limit-forecast-accuracy-15038 a comment from the blog
By Steven Pulley (Sumter, SC 29150)
on September 24th, 2012
No, we have not completely lost our ability to see the Atlantic Ocean via geostationary satellites. The Meteosat 9 satellite cover the entire Atlantic Ocean to the eastern Caribbean and eastern Bahamas but at a curved aspect because the satellite is centered over the Gulf of Guinea and the western edge of the satellite is the Caribbean. GOES 12 is being used for full South America imagery but every three hours at the cardinal hours - 00 UTC, 03 UTC, 06 UTC, 09 UTC, 12 UTC, 15 UTC, 18 UTC and 21 UTC - it takes full hemispheric imagery which covers the entire Atlantic Ocean eastward to Spain and Portugal and western Africa. The only major ability we have lost from the malfunction of GOES 13 is the sounder data which is similar to the upper air balloon data that the world launches every 12 hours or so to give a bottom to top view of the atmosphere, moisture, temperature and wind data, which is placed into the world wide computer models and forms the basis of the weather forecasts. The sounder data gives an added boost to the computer models by filling in the gaps in the atmospheric balloon network especially over the oceans.
I hope the tropics stay quiet close to land in the Atlantic
unrelated, but totally cool shot of Super Typhoon Jelewat (won't work in IE)
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