JPSS 2016 Blizzard
Animations & Product Images
- VIIRS DNB Lunar Reflectance
- VIIRS True-Color Images
- NESDIS Snowfall Rate in AWIPS II
- NESDIS Snowfall Rate Hourly Animation
- Snow Fraction and Brightness Temperature Maps
- CrIS Brightness Temperature Animation:
- SNPP/VIIRS Flood Detection Map
- AMSR-2 GCOM Products
- More AMSR-2 GCOM Animations
2016 Blizzard
January 22-24, 2016 - A record-breaking winter storm system tracked across the eastern United States this past weekend. The storm brought near-record amounts of snowfall from West Virginia through southern New York, as well as major coastal flooding from Virginia up to New England, with record surges Saturday morning.
The instruments on S-NPP captured the event. Click here to see NESDIS Snowfall animation for the blizzard. Below are some images created from VIIRS data. Drag bars in the images below to see before and after.
High resolution images from VIIRS for 1/11/2016 (left) and 1/24/2016 (right)
Mitch Goldberg (JPSS)
VIIRS Ocean Color Kd(490) for 1/11/2016 (left) and 1/24/2016 (right)
Menghua Wang (STAR/SOCD)