GOES-R Convective Initiation Nighttime Transition

Posted in General on by Darrel Kingfield.

The GOES-R Convective Initiation seems to have issues at nighttime. This even occurs with the use of infrared satellite data in the algorithm.

Here are a couple images from the transition from day to night:

CI_Day CI_Night

From these images, it seems the convective initiation algorithm is probably more useful during the day. The coarser resolution of the infrared satellite data could possibly explain this problem.

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  1. Thankfully the finer resolution of IR data from GOES-R will help during nightime! 🙂

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