Severe weather in the form of tornadoes is not something people expect on Christmas week but a storm system on Dec. 23 brought tornadoes to Mississippi, Georgia and Louisiana. As the storm moved, NASAs RapidScat captured data on winds while NOAAs GOES satellite tracked the movement of the system. NASAs RapidScat instrument flies aboard the International Space Station and captured a look at some of the high winds from the storms that brought severe weather to the U.S. Gulf Coast on Dec. 23. In addition, this animation of images from NOAAs GOES-East satellite showed the movement of those storms and other weather systems from Canada to South America from Dec. 21 to 24. An animation of visible and infrared satellite data from NOAAs GOES-East satellite that showed the development and movement of the weather system that spawned tornadoes affecting the Gulf Coast of the U.S. on Dec. 23 and early Dec. 24. To create the images and the video, NASA/NOAAs GOES Project takes the cloud data from NOAAs GOES-East satellite and overlays it on a true-color image of land and ocean created by data from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) instrument that flies aboard NASAs Aqua and Terra satellites. Together, those data created the entire picture of the storm systems and show their movement. Coupled with local weather observations, soundings, and computer models, data from satellites like NOAAs Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite or GOES-East (also known as GOES-13) gives forecasters information about developing weather situations. In real-time, the NOAAs GOES-East satellite data in animated form showed forecasters how the area of severe weather was developing and moving. Image credit: NASA/NOAA GOES Project Red Española de Planetología y Astrobiología ILUSTRE COLEGIO OFICIAL DE GEÓLOGOS
Posted on: Fri, 26 Dec 2014 12:15:51 +0000
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