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DISCLAIMER
...our most recent Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report is below.
Images listed below can be found together in the "../Events/Current" directory on the server:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/
You can access this directory through the "Current" button in the navigation bar of the web site.
Satellite information that appears in filenames below:
G12 - GOES-12
G10 - GOES-10
G11 - GOES-11
G13 - GOES-13
GJ - MTSAT **see below**
MT - METEOSAT
N5 - NOAA-15
N6 - NOAA-16
N7 - NOAA-17
N8 - NOAA-18
MO - MODIS
For information on solar flares and geomagnetic storms be sure to visit NOAA's Space Environment Center at:
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/
The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite Services Division of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:
1. Fires - no imagery posted
2. Floods - no imagery posted
3. Tropical Systems- MTSAT
4. Volcanoes - no imagery posted
5. Ocean - no imagery posted
6. Ice - no imagery posted
7. Dust Storms - no imagery posted
8. Storms - no imagery posted
9. Severe - no imagery posted
10. Snow Cover - no imagery posted
11. Unique - no imagery posted
Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the Operational Significant Event Imagery support
team Thursday December 18, 2008 are as follows:
IMAGE D6140: MTSAT <> Image Type=single band <> 12/19/2008 08:30 UTC.
On December 19, 2008 at 1200 UTC, Tropical Cyclone Billy was located near 14.7S 128.5E
195 NM southwest of Darwin, Australia. Billy was moving west at 2 mph with maximum
sustained winds of 50 mph and gusts to 63 mph.
Image provided in preview (~62K) and standard (293K) formats.
Preview (500X472):
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCbilly354_GJL.jpg
Standard (800x550)
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCbilly354_GJ.jpg
The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Interactive Processing Branch, (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196
If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:
Curtis Holland OSEI Team Leader
Curtis.Holland@noaa.gov 301-763-8142
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National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS)