Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES) data has direct applications in our everyday lives. The GOES-East and GOES-West satellites carry an imager that regularly scans North and South America and adjacent areas. The data from GOES provides continuous, dependable, and high quality observations of Earth and its environment.
The GOES system is a basic element of weather monitoring and forecasting operations. By providing weather imagery and atmospheric sounding data to NOAA’s National Weather Service, it is able to provide a reliable stream of weather information to be accessed from around the world.
Real time weather data from the GOES system is used to produce forecasts of daily weather, severe storms, winds, clouds, and surface conditions. Using the data, |
meteorologists can predict where a hurricane may track or where a tornado may form.
Monitoring the world's volcanoes and the resulting plumes from the volcanic emissions can be accomplished by using GOES imagery. Aviation and scheduling of airline flights are impacted by volcanic ash. The path of the volcanic ash is also valuable input for weather forecasting models and world temperature changes.
GOES system data continues to be a valuable tool for climate analysis and determining weather anomalies.
More information on GOES may be found at http://rsd.gsfc.nasa.gov/goesb/chesters/web/goesproject.html |
