NOAA's Operational Significant Event Imagery

Welcome to the Operational Significant Event Imagery (OSEI) Homepage...

...our most recent Daily Operational Significant Events Support Report is below.

Images listed below can be found together in the "../Events/Current" directory on the server:
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

You can access this directory through the "Current" button in the navigation bar of the web site.

Satellite information that appears in filenames below:

G12 - GOES-12
G10 - GOES-10
G11 - GOES-11
G13 - GOES-13
G14 - GOES-14
GJ - MTSAT
MT - METEOSAT
M2 - METOP
N5 - NOAA-15
N6 - NOAA-16
N7 - NOAA-17
N8 - NOAA-18 **see below**
N9 - NOAA-19
MO - MODIS

For information on solar flares and geomagnetic storms be sure to visit NOAA's Space Environment Center at:
http://www.swpc.noaa.gov/SWN/

The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite Services Division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:

1. Fires - no imagery posted
2. Floods - no imagery posted
3. Tropical Systems- no imagery posted
4. Volcanoes - no imagery posted
5. Ocean - no imagery posted
6. Ice - no imagery posted
7. Dust Storms - no imagery posted
8. Storms - no imagery posted
9. Severe - no imagery posted
10. Snow Cover - NOAA-18
11. Unique - no imagery posted

Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the Operational Significant Event Imagery support team Tuesday February 9, 2010 are as follows:

IMAGE D6140: NOAA-18 <> Image Type=combine <> 2/8/2010 18:32 UTC.
A major winter storm brought heavy snow and high wind to the Mid-Atlantic states in early February. Record snowfalls in the Washington, D.C., area caused government offices, schools, and airports to close. Another severe snowstorm may impact the area late Tuesday into Wednesday. Snow cover across the Mid-Atlantic can be seen in this NOAA-18 satellite image taken on February 08 at 1832 UTC. Note the lack of snowcover in southeastern
Virginia, northern New Jersey and southeastern New York.

Image provided in preview (~62K) and standard (293K) formats.

Preview (500X472):

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/SNWnortheast040_N8L.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/SNWnortheast040_N8L.jpg

Standard (800x550)

http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/SNWnortheast040_N8.jpg
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/SNWnortheast040_N8.jpg

The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Product Implementation Branch, (PIB) (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:
Curtis Holland OSEI Team Leader

Curtis.Holland@noaa.gov 301-763-8142

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