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Hi-Definition From the Heavens

posted by on Wednesday January 25 2017, @02:27PM   Printer-friendly
from the 3d-4k-curved-screen-with-built-in-tivo dept.

CoolHand writes:

https://phys.org/news/2017-01-goes-satellite-images-earth.html

Since the GOES-16 satellite lifted off from Cape Canaveral on November 19, scientists, meteorologists and ordinary weather enthusiasts have anxiously waited for the first photos from NOAA's newest weather satellite, GOES-16, formerly GOES-R.

The release of the first images today is the latest step in a new age of weather satellites. It will be like high-definition from the heavens.

The pictures from its Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) instrument, built by Harris Corporation, show a full-disc view of the Western Hemisphere in high detail—at four times the image resolution of existing GOES spacecraft. The higher resolution will allow forecasters to pinpoint the location of severe weather with greater accuracy. GOES-16 can provide a full image of Earth every 15 minutes and one of the continental U.S. every five minutes, and scans the Earth at five times the speed of NOAA's current GOES imagers.

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  • (Score: 2) by FatPhil on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:41PM

    by FatPhil (863) <pc-soylentNO@SPAMasdf.fi> on Wednesday January 25 2017, @11:41PM (#458727) Homepage
    Well, 2 decades ago, I lived on the flat plain of East Anglia, which, despite being in Britain is categorised as "arid", and since then I live on the coast of the Baltic Sea, and the forecasts were good for 4-5 days back then 99% of the time, and are only good for 2-3 days now, apart from extreme mass air movements (e.g. siberian or arabian) which can be predicted for 4-5 days.

    However, I actually base my opinion on the fact that different weather agencies around the globe are still "predicting" wildly different weather from each other for only hours in the future which of course often also wildly contradict what I can see from my window.

    In summary - weather forecasts have yet to reach the accuracy of election polls.
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