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Realtime satellite image loops

Requires Java capability -- eight frames of the latest data collected at our facility, offering full loop control using your browser.
• Click here for satellite loop controller (all bands)
• Information on color tables (false color enhancements)
• Comments on 3.9 micron imagery

Dan's Current Web Pages

• CDOT site survey's (tour the Colorado Dept. of Transportation mesonet sites, some photos) new photos
• AWIPS-GOES Data Utilization Page
• LAPS Satellite Moisture Algorithm Overview
• A Variational Algorithm for Satellite Moisture Structure
• A new variational approach to moisture analysis in LAPS
• LAPS FAQ Page

Other useful links

Links of local interest

Where I work

NOAA/ Forecast Systems Laboratory (FSL)/ Forecast Research Division (FRD) / Local Analysis and Prediction Branch (LAPB)
 
 

What I do

Real-time LAPS visualizations and products for Colorado
 
 

LAPS in SEATTLE (a ported version of our code running remotely)

Other branches in our division:
 

• Meteorological Applications Branch

• Regional Analysis and Prediction Branch

 

GOES Links

• NASA Goddard (check out the online satellite pictures!)
• NOAASIS
• Another Info page
• CIMSS numerical modeling with GOES impact
• Colorado State University CIRA page
• NESDIS homepage

 

Tour our Groundstation

• Photo tour

Need to find somebody?

• NOAA National Locator(interactive)
• Find-a-Person Switchboard

On-line Almanac

• Click here for the current Universal Coordinated Time (UTC)
• Sunrise Sunset; Moonrise Moonset --> Computer <--
• U.S. Naval Observatory Master Clock
• Compute your local Sidereal Time

Weather Links

• El-Nino detector Near the bottom of this linked page, check out the last plot (it is clickable). It is a frequently updated image of sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies. You can also find it directly here.
• LAPS Realtime Colorado Products
• FSL Weather Page -- contains radar/satellite loops (some restricted items).

 
General Science Links
• Science Magazine (Now requires subscription, but index still free)
• Science News Online
• Electronic Journals

 

Misc. Links

• News search engine by excite (very good for science topical searches)

Curriculum Vitae

• Education and Experience
• Publications