CSD Satellite Imagery and Meteorological Products: POLARCAT 2008

Products in support of POLARCAT 2008

Arctic Composite images

Click on the links below to see composite images above the Arctic, produced by the Space Science and Engineering Center, U. Wisconsin - Madison.
These images are updated every 3-hours at NOAA ESRL, Boulder, USA, by Owen Cooper (Owen.R.Cooper@noaa.gov)
Image loops and archived images are also available in the table below.

Hours back in time	IR, North Pacific	IR, Alaska	IR, Ellesmere Is.	IR, North Atlantic	IR, Svalbard	IR, Hudson Bay
48-hour image loop	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif
00	X	X	X	X	X	X
03	X	X	X	X	X	X
06	X	X	X	X	X	X
09	X	X	X	X	X	X
12	X	X	X	X	X	X
15	X	X	X	X	X	X
18	X	X	X	X	X	X
21	X	X	X	X	X	X
24	X	X	X	X	X	X
27	X	X	X	X	X	X
30	X	X	X	X	X	X
33	X	X	X	X	X	X
36	X	X	X	X	X	X
39	X	X	X	X	X	X
42	X	X	X	X	X	X
45	X	X	X	X	X	X
48	X	X	X	X	X	X
Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive

Arctic Composite Images with FLEXPART products

Click on the links below to see composite images above the Arctic, with overlays of FLEXPART tracers. Updated every 3-hours.

Hours backward or
forward in time

European
CO
00-20_km

European
CO
00-01_km

European
CO
00-03_km

European
CO
04-20_km

N.American
CO
00-20_km

N.American
CO
00-01_km

N.American
CO
00-03_km

N.American
CO
04-20_km

Asian
CO
00-20_km

Asian
CO
00-01_km

Asian
CO
00-03_km

Asian
CO
04-20_km

BrO
00-06_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
06-12_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
12-18_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
18-24_UTC
00-03_km

96-hour image loop

Java,
or gif

+48

+42

+36

+30

+24

+18

+12

+06

-03

-06

-09

-12

-15

-18

-21

-24

-27

-30

-33

-36

-39

-42

-45

-48

Arctic Composite images with GFS products

Click on the links below to see composite images above the Arctic with various GFS analyses and forecasts overlaid. Updated every 6-hours.

Hours backward or forward in time	IR, North Pacific, MSLP	IR, Alaska, surface winds, temp.	IR, Ellesmere Is., MSLP	IR, Ellesmere Is., surface winds, temp.	IR, N. Atlantic, MSLP
120-hour image loop	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif	Java, or gif
+72	X	X	X	X	X
+60	X	X	X	X	X
+48	X	X	X	X	X
+42	X	X	X	X	X
+36	X	X	X	X	X
+30	X	X	X	X	X
+24	X	X	X	X	X
+18	X	X	X	X	X
+12	X	X	X	X	X
00	X	X	X	X	X
-06	X	X	X	X	X
-12	X	X	X	X	X
-18	X	X	X	X	X
-24	X	X	X	X	X
-30	X	X	X	X	X
-36	X	X	X	X	X
-42	X	X	X	X	X
-48	X	X	X	X	X
-54	X	X	X	X	X
-60	X	X	X	X	X
-66	X	X	X	X	X
-72	X	X	X	X	X
Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive

NOAA POES AVHRR images

Click on the links below to see AVHRR 1km IR and VIS images above the Arctic.
These images are updated every hour, but on average an image is available only every other hour,
depending on which of the four NOAA POES satellites passes over the study region.
The image loops contain the best images from the past 24 hours, from any of the four satellites

west Arctic IR	west Arctic VIS	Chukchi Sea IR	Chukchi Sea VIS	Beaufort Sea IR	Beaufort Sea VIS	Barrow IR	Barrow VIS	Fairbanks IR	Fairbanks VIS
24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif	24-hour image loop Java, or gif
NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive	NOAA-15 archive
NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive	NOAA-16 archive
NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive	NOAA-17 archive
NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive	NOAA-18 archive

POES AVHRR IR Images with FLEXPART products

Click on the links below to see composite images above the Arctic, with overlays of FLEXPART tracers. Updated every 3-hours.

Product

European
CO
00-20_km

European
CO
00-01_km

European
CO
00-03_km

European
CO
04-20_km

N.American
CO
00-20_km

N.American
CO
00-01_km

N.American
CO
00-03_km

N.American
CO
04-20_km

Asian
CO
00-20_km

Asian
CO
00-01_km

Asian
CO
00-03_km

Asian
CO
04-20_km

Total
anthro CO
00-20_km

Total
anthro CO
00-01_km

Total
anthro CO
00-03_km

Total
anthro CO
04-20_km

BrO
00-06_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
06-12_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
12-18_UTC
00-03_km

BrO
18-24_UTC
00-03_km

96-hour image loop

Java,
or gif

AMSR-E/Aqua 89 MHz sea ice images

Click on the links below to see daily images of Arctic sea ice. Data are provided by the National Snow and Ice Data Center in Boulder.
The 89 MHz horizontal/vertical brightness temperature retrievals show the location and movement of multi-year sea ice, indicated by low values.
The horizontal/vertical brightness temperature difference plots show the location of all types of sea ice with areas of partially or completely open water, indicated by high values.

Full Arctic horizontal and vertical	Full Arctic h/v difference	Alaska horizontal and vertical	Alaska h/v difference
20-day image loop Java, or gif	20-day image loop Java, or gif	20-day image loop Java, or gif	20-day image loop Java, or gif
Archive	Archive	Archive	Archive

NAM forecasts

Product

48-hour loop

+0 hours/sat

+0 hours

+12

+15

+18

+21

+24

+27

+30

+33

+36

+39

+42

+45

+48

low level cloud

Java

mid-level cloud

Java

high level cloud

Java