CIMSS Satellite Blog

Sources of real-time images from all GOES satellites | CIMSS eclipse guide

* GOES-16 data posted on this page are preliminary, non-operational and are undergoing testing*

GOES-16 CONUS Sector images (at 5-minute intervals)

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play animation]

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images [click to play animation]The umbral shadow was evident on imagery from the 0.5 km resolution (at satellite sub-point) GOES-16 0.64 µm “Red’ Visible band (above) and 1.0 km resolution 0.86 µm Near-Infrared “Vegetation” band (below).

GOES-16 Near-Infrared “Vegetation” (0.86 µm) images [click to play animation]

The 3.9 µm Shortwave Infrared band is also sensitive to reflected solar radiation — particularly that which is reflected from land surfaces and cloud tops composed of small spherical supercooled water droplets (and to a lesser extent, small ice crystals) — which causes this band to sense warmer (darker gray to black) brightness temperatures compared to the other ABI infrared bands. Therefore, a loss of sunlight within the eclipse shadow will lead to cooling (lighter shades of gray) 3.9 µm brightness temperatures (below).

GOES-16 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 µm) images [click to play MP4 animation]

GOES-16 Mesoscale Sector images (at 1-minute intervals)

GOES-16 “Red” Visible (0.64 µm) images, with station identifiers plotted in yellow [click to play animation]

Polar-orbiting satellite images (Terra MODIS, and Suomi NPP VIIRS)

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