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Images and Data

SSEC Data Center

Provides access, maintenance and distribution of real-time and archive weather and satellite data.

SSEC Galleries

picture galleries: Antarctica / Polar, Field Experiments, Environment and Weather ...

Real-Time Imagery and Data


Antarctic  

Antarctic images, movies, and weather data

Antarctic satellite images and animations, synoptic weather data, iceberg images, model data ... (Antarctic Meteorological Research Center)
AERI  

Atmospheric Emitted Radiance Interferometer (AERI)

Ground-based remote sensing of temperature and water vapor profiles, sea surface temperature/emissivities, cloud properties ...
CRAS  

CIMSS Regional Assimilation System Forecast (CRAS)

Forecasts of various atmospheric parameters, including forecasted satellite images.
Convective Initiation Assessment Products  

CLAVR-x Near Real-Time Results

Diagnostic looks of the non-operational STAR CLAVR-x system
Convective Initiation Assessment Products  

Convective Initiation Assessment Products

Products designed to monitor the initial development and evolution of convective storms over land and oceans.
Fire Monitoring  

Fire monitoring satellite images

Automated Biomass Burning Algorithm (ABBA) GOES satellite images of fires occuring in the western hemisphere (North and South America)
Geostationary  

Geostationary weather satellite images

GOES (North and South America), Meteosat (Europe and Africa) , MTSAT (Asia and Australia)
Geostationary image browser  

Geostationary Satellite Image Browser

Web page interface for viewing GOES, MTSAT, and Meteosat satellite pictures and movies in multiple image channels and more
Global Satellite Data Collaborations  

Global Satellite Data Collaborations

View, mark-up and discuss GOES, MTSAT, Meteosat, and Derived Products images with other people via this web-based, Java interface.
GOES products  

GOES Derived Products

Precipitable Water, Lifted Index/CAPE, Cloud Top Pressure, Ozone, Sea-Surface Temperature, ...
GOES Composite  

GOES US Full Resolution Visible Image Browser

Full resolution, real-time GOES East/West composite satellite image web page interface with zoom and animation features
Google Earth Imagery  

Google Earth Imagery

Real-time satellite imagery (AVHRR, MODIS ...) provided in Google Earth format.
Hurricane pictures  

Hurricane and tropical storm images

Satellite images and derived parameters (winds, vorticity ...) focusing on hurricanes and tropical storms
IDEA  

IDEA: Infusing satellite Data into Environmental Applications

air quality analysis / forecasting data and images
Kalpana  

Kalpana Image and Navigation Quality Tiles

Kalpana imagery viewer
Mesoscale Winds  

Mesoscale winds

Upper level wind analysis from GOES water vapor winds
MODIS Today  

MODIS Today

Real time MODIS imagery accessible via web browser and Google Earth
PAW  

PDA Animated Weather (PAW)

PAW is a PDA friendly weather web site that contains real-time images, graphics and text formated for display on PDA devices equiped with high resolution color displays.
Polar  

Polar orbiting weather satellite images

Continental U.S. Terra/Aqua MODIS pictures and movies
Polar Clouds  

Real-Time Polar Remote Sensing Products

Plots of near real-time surface, cloud, and radiative properties over the Arctic and Antarctic, using AVHRR satellite data and the CASPR software package
composite  

Satellite composite images

including the SSEC Global Montage, Rotating Globe movie, and Antarctic composite
Sea Surface Temperature  

Sea Surface Temperature

Satellite derived sea surface temperatures.
 

SOSE Real-time satellite image viewer

View real-time satellite data around the world.
Storm Tracker  

Storm Tracker Analysis Tool and Archive

An interactive tool for tracking convective clusters from satellite and radar data
Volcano  

Volcano watch

Satellite pictures covering the top ten active volcanoes from around the world
Local Weather  

Wisconsin and Midwest Weather

Weather observations, forecasts, meteograms, radar ...

Other Data and Resources


NOAAPORT  

NOAAPORT

provides access to NOAA's real-time environmental data and products
Data Center Archive  

SSEC Data Center Archive

Archive of geostationary satellite data and NOAAPORT point, grid, and text weather data
Lidar  

University of Wisconsin-Madison Lidar Group

Active remote sensing of atmospheric profiles using a ground-based laser.
CIMSS GOES Gallery CIMSS Satellite Blog
A weblog of meteorological satellite imagery relevant to current weather events


Last Updated:
January 15, 2009
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