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The primo link for high-res SST's...

#1 Postby Steve » Fri May 27, 2005 4:13 pm

Lots of people view OTIS and some of the digitized graphics sites whose SST's look like cartoons. This site is the best of the best. It updates 4 times a day with the sat passes, but sometimes (like quickscat) a portion could be missed. Also clouds do occlude the readings below them, but you get the idea:

http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/avhrr/sst.html

Here's a graphical depiction of the northern gulf from the last run today:

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#2 Postby MGC » Fri May 27, 2005 4:22 pm

Great find Steve. I bookmarked this one.......MGC
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#3 Postby Steve » Fri May 27, 2005 4:31 pm

Yeah, I've had that one for a couple years. If you go to the site,
you can get whatever area you want (northern Gulf Stream,
Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico). Since the feeds alternate between
Channel 4 and Channel 2 every other pass, I'm guessing
that it's a piggyback on one of the GOES sats. (?)

Anyway, it's an awesome tool a day or so in advance of a storm
to see where the really hot eddys (sp?) are.

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#4 Postby cycloneye » Fri May 27, 2005 4:32 pm

Steve wrote:Yeah, I've had that one for a couple years. If you go to the site,
you can get whatever area you want (northern Gulf Stream,
Bahamas, Gulf of Mexico). Since the feeds alternate between
Channel 4 and Channel 2 every other pass, I'm guessing
that it's a piggyback on one of the GOES sats. (?)

Anyway, it's an awesome tool a day or so in advance of a storm
to see where the really hot eddys (sp?) are.

Steve


Is there one for the MDR area?
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#5 Postby MGC » Fri May 27, 2005 4:35 pm

I think the instruments are on a polar orbiting sat.....MGC
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#6 Postby x-y-no » Fri May 27, 2005 4:44 pm

Thanks for the link. Really more detail than is needed day to day, but as you said this could be real handy in locating hot spots in a storm's track.

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#7 Postby tallywx » Sat May 28, 2005 2:08 am

I especially like the 3-day moving composites of SST from that site. You don't have the readings obscured by cloudcover, and the resolution is fascinating in its detail.

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#8 Postby TampaFl » Sat May 28, 2005 6:12 am

:eek: :eek:
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#9 Postby Aquawind » Sat May 28, 2005 6:35 am

That 3 day is awesome.. Nice linkage.. Thanks :)

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#10 Postby dhweather » Sat May 28, 2005 7:36 pm

That's a great resource, thanks!

And the Gulf is about to boil as well.....
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#11 Postby Javlin » Sat May 28, 2005 11:13 pm

Are we that warm out there already geez.I would of guessed 1.5>2.0 C cooler right now.
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#12 Postby Brent » Sat May 28, 2005 11:19 pm

:eek:

That water is very warm... and it's Late May.

Nice maps. 8-)
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#13 Postby tallywx » Sun May 29, 2005 2:58 pm

Another good one from a bit wider out:

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#14 Postby tallywx » Sun May 29, 2005 3:00 pm

and wider still...

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#15 Postby cycloneye » Sun May 29, 2005 3:56 pm

Folks you can read all about the sst's in great explanation that MWatkins made at tropical analysis forum.

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http://www.storm2k.org/phpbb2/viewtopic ... 348#886348
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