Worldview 1

As promised in the last post I will be posting screen captures of images from the MODIS instrument on board the Aqua and Terra satellites, beginning with this post.



This is a great example of von Karman waves, which are created when air flow is disrupted by a obstacle. In this case, it is the airflow in the East China Sea being deflected by Jeju Island.



In this image of the Mediterranean Sea, an air mass moving south from Europe is digging into an air mass from the Sahara Desert. Note how much dust is being carried by the African air compared to the European air.



Here, Cyclone Narelle is tracking just west of Australia. At this time, the storm was beginning to be impacted by the strong Mid-latitude westerlies as evident by the outflow being swept across the southern part of the continent.



In this highly zoomed in view the island country of Palau the brilliant blue of the reefs and lagoons is clearly visible. This is a great example of usefulness of true color images.



Two extratropical cyclones are captured here northeast of Japan in the Sea of Okhotsk. The scale on the far right of the image gives a sense of the size of the two systems.