Watching Hurricanes Irma, Jose and Katia From Above Earth

Post by ianai » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 4:50 PM UTC

phkahler wrote: post #18

jashkenas wrote: post #6

It's nice to see that folks are enjoying this — it was a group effort to wrestle the 22.3 gigs of imagery frames over FTP and get them cropped, processed, overlaid and sorted in time. For anyone who wants to dig deeper, the RAMMB branch of NOAA in Colorado maintains a page of GOES16 loops of the day: http://rammb.cira.colostate.edu/ramsdis/online/loop_of_the_d... ... and also runs a fancy imagery viewer where you can…

It would be really awesome to have this as wallpaper on a 4K monitor and have it update every 15 minutes. Is there a fixed URL to the most recent image?

Post by gogoengie » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 5:34 PM UTC

sp332 wrote: post #10

TeMPOraL wrote: post #8

Wow, just wow. I didn't realize there finally are more cameras that can provide this image quality in space, beyond the one that is (was?) on the ISS. Also kudos to NYT for the way they put it together. I'm mesmerized by the globe video.

GOES-16 was just launched in November last year. https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/witness-the-firepowe... There are 3 more of them scheduled for the next 20 years.

Post by okreallywtf » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 5:55 PM UTC

volkk wrote: post #14

sp332 wrote: post #11

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NOAA Hurricane hunters fly WP-3 Orions. https://www.omao.noaa.gov/learn/aircraft-operations/aircraft... USAF 53rd Weather Reconniassance Squadron fly WC-130s. http://www.militaryaircrafthistorian.com/53rd_wrs.html Inside the eye can be calm, but the highest winds, wind shear, tornadoes, rainfall, and hail, are in the eye wall.

I tried to read a bit about it, but couldn't really find much in terms of--what makes these planes a lot more durable than your standard 737/747?

Post by volkk » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 6:21 PM UTC

okreallywtf wrote: post #25

volkk wrote: post #14

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I tried to read a bit about it, but couldn't really find much in terms of--what makes these planes a lot more durable than your standard 737/747?

I wondered specifically why both planes were prop driven (seems like a jet engine would have more thrust and you wouldn't have to worry about wind forces on the props) and I found this, hopefully it helps with your question as well. https://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/columnist/cox/2016/05/...

Post by amelius » Tue, Sep 12, 2017, 9:13 PM UTC

jashkenas wrote: post #24

phkahler wrote: post #18

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It would be really awesome to have this as wallpaper on a 4K monitor and have it update every 15 minutes. Is there a fixed URL to the most recent image?

There isn't one that I'm aware of ... yet. That said, the raw data is available through an S3-compatible service, here: https://osdc.rcc.uchicago.edu/noaa-goes16 With documentation about how to navigate and use the files here: http://edc.occ-data.org/goes16/getdata/ So it would be possible to script together something that cooks out a nice high-rez full disc image every 15 minutes. For fun, here's one of the full dis…