Lindstrom Leads CIMSS VISIT Session
The Virtual Institute for Satellite Integration Training (VISIT) session "Trough of Warm Air Aloft (TROWAL) Identification" was led by Scott Lindstrom on 27 October 2011.
Staff from the National Weather Service forecast offices at Wichita, Kansas and Riverton, Wyoming participated in the VISIT lesson. In addition, the CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with posts discussing Hurricane Rina, and widespread snow cover across Colorado following a major early season winter storm.
AWIPS image comparison of MODIS visible channel data with the corresponding MODIS false color Red/Green/Blue (RGB) image centered over Colorado on October 27, 2011. In the false color RGB image, snow cover appears as shades of red, while cloud features appears as shades of white.
