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Geostationary and Polar

Arctic Composites This composite imagery product is generated every one hour at the Visible, Infrared, Shortwave Infrared, Longwave Infrared, and the Water Vapor bands by using the following GOES and POES Imagers: GOES-13, GOES-15, Meteosat-8, MSG-10, Himawari-8, NOAA-18, NOAA-19, MetOp-A, MetOp-B, Aqua and Terra.

Coverage: 50°N ˜ 90°N

Product Link: 7 Days

Band Imagery:
Water vapor (~6.7 µm): Image


Visible (~0.65 µm): Image
Infrared (~11.0 µm): Image
Shortwave Infrared (3.7 to 3.9): Image
Longwave Infrared (~12.0 µm): Image

GOES and POES Imagers Resolution: 4 Km Frequency: 60 Minutes

Geostationary

Continental US Composites This product is generated every 30 minutes using either the Visible, Infrared, Shortwave Infrared (4um), or the Water Vapor images into one larger composite image using GOES East and West Imagers.

Central US Composite:
Mercator Projection (10 Kmn) – Page – More enhancements available

Visible - image | loop Shortwave Infrared - image | loop
Infrared - image | loop Water Vapor - image | loop
Polar Stereographic Projection (12 Km) – Original Page – Imager is top row only:
Visible - image | loop Shortwave Infrared - image | loop
Infrared - image | loop Water Vapor - image | loop

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GOES Imager Resolution: 10-12 Km Frequency: 30 minutes
Continental US Composites These images were composites of derived meteorological parameters utilizing an Atmospheric Sounder on both GOES East and GOES West. The images are generated every 1 hour using one larger composite image. Since the failure of the GOES East Sounder, only the GOES West Sounder image is shown.

GOES East/West Composite Page (Sounder – All except Top Row)

Precipitable Water - image | loop
Lifted Index - image | loop
Cloud Top Pressure - image | loop
Skin Temperature - image | loop
Convective Available Potential Energy (CAPE) – image | loop
Convective Inhibition (CINH) - image | loop
850-500 mb Lapse Rates - image | loop
Showalter Index (SI) - image | loop

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GOES Sounder Resolution: 8 Km Frequency: 1 hour
Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI) The Global Mosaic of Geostationary Satellite Imagery (GMGSI) product set provides global coverage from 60N to 60S using data from five geostationary satellites, GOES-16 (75W), GOES-17 (137.2W), Meteosat-11 (0 degrees), Meteosat-8 (41.5E), and Himawari-8 (140.7E). Available in four spectral bands - longwave infrared, shortwave infrared, mid-wave infrared (water vapor) and visible data - the composite products are generated at hourly intervals at 8 km spatial resolution.

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Band Imagery:
Global Visible Mosaic (~0.6 µm) - image


Global Longwave Infrared Mosaic (~12.0 µm) - image
Global Water Vapor (~6.7 µm) - image
Global Shortwave Infrared Mosaic (~3.8 µm) - image

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GOES, METEOSAT and Himawari-8 Resolution: 8 Km Frequency: 1 hour
Northern Hemisphere Composites (Imager) Product shows a composited Visible, Infrared or Water Vapor image of the Northern Hemisphere. It is created by melding both GOES East and GOES West images and is generated every 30 minutes.

New Northern Hemisphere Composite (20 Km) – Page – More enhancements available

Visible - image | loop Shortwave Infrared - image | loop
Infrared - image | loop Water Vapor - image | loop
Original GOES East/West Northern Hemisphere Composites (24 Km) – Page
VIS | IR | Water Vapor

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GOES Resolution: 20 - 24 km Frequency: 30 minutes

Polar

Equatorial Mercator Composites Product shows a composited Visible, Infrared or Water Vapor image of the Equatorial Tropics from about 40North Latitude to 40 South Latitude.

These Polar Mapped Mosaic composite satellite images are generated using composite AVHRR GAC data gathered onboard NOAA's polar orbiting satellites (NOAA-18 and NOAA-19). These images are created once per day.

Tropical Mercator Composites – Page

NOAA-18 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB
NOAA-19 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB

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POES Resolution: 24 km Frequency: daily
Hemisphere Composites Product shows a composited Visible, Infrared or Water Vapor image of the Northern Hemisphere or Southern Hemisphere.

These Polar Mapped Mosaic composite satellite images are generated using composite AVHRR GAC data gathered onboard NOAA's polar orbiting satellites (NOAA-18 and NOAA-19). These images are created once per day.

Northern Hemisphere Composites – Page

NOAA-18 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB
NOAA-19 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB

Southern Hemisphere Composites – Page
NOAA-18 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB
NOAA-19 - BAND 1 | BAND 2 | BAND 3 | BAND 4 | BAND 5 | RGB

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POES Resolution: 15 km at the equator and 36 km at the poles Frequency: daily
Microwave Sectors These Microwave passes are composited over the same sectors as regular GOES imagery.

Overview
Atlantic Ocean Sectors:

Caribbean Sea | Central Atlantic | East Atlantic | Gulf of Mexico
North Atlantic | Northeast Atlantic | Northwest Atlantic
Tropical Wide View | West Atlantic

Pacific Ocean Sectors:
Central Pacific | Eastern East Pacific | East Pacific
Tropical Wide View | West Central Pacific | West Pacific

Polar Stereographic Sectors:
Atlantic: Northwest Atlantic | North Atlantic | Northeast Atlantic
Pacific: Northeast Pacific | Northwest Pacific

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AMSU Resolution: 8 - 12 KM Frequency: 3 hours
DMSP (SSM/IS) Resolution: 8 - 12 KM Frequency: 12 hours

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