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JPSS 2016 Blizzard
Animations & Product Images

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)

VIIRS DNB Lunar Reflectance, January 23-25, 2016

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Arunas Kuciauskas (NRL), and Don Hillger (CIRA)

VIIRS True Color Images, January 23-24, 2016

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Kim Richardson (NRL), and Don Hillger (CIRA)

NESDIS Snowfall Rate in AWIPS II, January 22-24, 2016

NESDIS Snowfall Rate in AWIPS II from several satellite overpasses during the Blizzard of 2016.

Select Eastern Region WFOs are currently evaluating the NESDIS Snowfall Rate product, which uses passive microwave observations from 5 sensors, to observe total column snowfall rates. Below is a series of images from the January 22-24 east coast blizzard showing the SFR product displayed as a 10:1 solid/liquid conversion. The darkest greens indicate snowfall rates at the top of the sensor detection range at approximately 2"/hr. Depending on the actual solid/liquid ratio in individual areas, rates may have been higher.

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Snowfall Rate Product Animation, January 23-25, 2016

NESDIS Snowfall Rate animation for the Blizzard of 2016. Weighted averages were applied to fill in gaps between satellite overpasses. Animation through courtesy of Pat Meyers of CICS, University of Maryland.

Other resources

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Huan Meng, Ralph Ferraro (NESDIS/STAR), Jun Dong, Patrick Meyers, Cezar Kongoli (UMD/CICS), and Bradley Zavodsky (NASA/SPoRT)

Animation: Snow Fraction Map and Brightness Temperature Map - January 25, 2016

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CrIS BT Animation, Ascending, January 23-25, 2016

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CrIS BT Animation, Descending, January 23-25, 2016

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SNPP/VIIRS Flood Detection Map, Jan. 24, 2016 18:15UTC

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AMSR2 Products: Rain Rate, Ascending and Descending Winds, 1/23/2016

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Cloud Liquid Water Animation

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Rain Rate Animation

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Sea Surface Temperature Animation

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Sea Surface Winds Animation

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Total Precipitable Water Animation

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National Weather Service Snowfall Totals - January 24, 2016