So this is pretty amazing - yesterday EarthCARE sampled Hurricane Humberto straight across the eye! The eye of a tropical cyclone is small so a direct hit is rare: this is the first time EarthCARE has hit one after over a year in orbit! (Showing here also VIIRS on NOAA-20 for context.)
Aug 16: Images from @NOAA_HurrHunter and the @NOAASatellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit hurricanes.gov https://x.com/NHC_Atlantic/status/1956713125828325429
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Hi - I'd like to share this story of what is happening at NOAA GFDL, where some of my colleagues and I worked until the mass firings at NOAA last week.
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This image is a global visualization of aerosol distributions on September 5, 2020, at 00:00 UTC. It represents different types of aerosols using a color-coded scheme: • Red represents dust (du), primarily visible over arid regions like the Sahara Desert and extending into the Atlantic. • Blue indicates sea salt (ss), prominent over the oceans, particularly in stormy regions. • Green signifies carbonaceous aerosol (ca), which is associated with biomass burning and pollution, visible over regions like the Amazon, Central Africa, and parts of Southeast Asia. • Yellow shows sulfuric aerosol (su), often linked to volcanic emissions and industrial activity. The image is overlaid on a world map with latitude and longitude markers. The transparency of the colors varies to indicate concentration levels, with fully transparent areas representing minimal aerosol presence and fully opaque areas representing maximum concentrations. The right-hand legend provides a scale for interpreting the aerosol concentrations in milligrams per square meter.
Preprint summarizing the first results from the nextGEMS project, which prepares several coupled models to run at kilometer scale: egusphere.copernicus.org/preprints/20... 🧪
