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Clouds
- Probably the best suite of satellite images currently available are these 1km visible, 4km infrared and water vapour images from Brisbane Storm Chasers. They are based on NPMOC Yokohama images (see next entry) and offer animations, a 14-day archive and - in the case of the high resolution visible images - many state and regional sub-images. (04/07/07)
- A full suite of current satellite images and loops for Australia and the Western Pacific (including Australia) from the US Naval Pacific Meteorology and Oceanography Centre in Japan: IR, enhanced IR, visible light and water vapour, together with the latest high resolution visible imagery. (04/07/07)
- Current QuikSCAT winds derived from satellite measurements from NOAA Marine Observing Systems. Click the map to zoom in. (04/07/07)
- The Bureau
of Meteorology's satellite homepage. Current infrared and
Visible images with an archive of a few days and links to explanatory
and technical information. This animation
loop will be what many are looking for. (03/10/02)
- Highly
detailed images of Australia (and the rest of the globe) are
available from NASA's MODIS
Land Rapid Response System within an hour or two of real time.
Go here
for Australian regional subsets of images, and here
for the full day's global images. While the primary objective
of the site
is
to spot bushfires (marked out
in red),
this site
currently
provides
the
most detailed
satellite
images of Australia available freely on the web. They are available
at 2km, 1km, 500m and 250m resolution, with the largest resolution
images around 7mb in size. Typically, only one or two images of
any part of the continent are available on any day, and NVDI images
(showing vegetation colour) are also available on all resolutions.
Go to the FAQ for
help on using the site. The Gallery has
some astounding photos, including many of Australia, and is worth
a
regular visit. (30/1/05)
- A good suite of satellite images and loops for eastern Australia and the Coral and Tasman Seas from NOAA: IR, enhanced IR, visible and water vapour. Use the links in the MTSAT East columns. (26/03/06)
- Another NPMOC satellite image site (Hawaii). There are full globe visible | infrared | water
vapour images, and a mercator
projection IR image for the Australia/SE Asia area. (26/03/06)
- An
excellent site from CIMSS. Real-time high density water vapour,
infrared and visible light satpix of Australia with superposed
winds at different levels calculated from cloud movement. Wind
shear and upper level divergence also shown. Nice menu with thumbnails
to select from, and separate images for eastern and western Australia.
The global menu is in a frame at left. Updated every 6 hours.
Archives for 6, 12, 18 and 24 hours previous are among the thumbnails.
There are also an explanatory
FAQ and a special global
tropical cyclone page. (26/03/06)
- Also from CIMSS are infrared,
water vapour and colour-enhanced IR images and 24-hour movies,
without the superimposed winds. The coloured IR images are excellent,
and the movies are available in Java and FLI formats. (26/03/06)
- Yet again from CIMSS, infrared
and water vapour mosaic images and movies from several satellites covering a strip from South Africa to the central
Pacific Ocean, with Australia at the centre. They are in the panels
at the bottom of the page. (26/03/06)
- Home page of the MTSAT series of satellites. MTSAT-2 provides geostationary coverage of Australia. Use these satellite imagery menus to access static and animated images, selecting SW and SE quadrants for western and eastern Australia respectively. (29/03/06)
- CSIRO NOAA polar-orbiting
orbiting IR high definition satpix for Australia, Qld, NSW/Vic,
SA, Tas, New Zealand and Antarctica updated as flights take the
satellite over the relevant area (29/03/06)
- JCU
Web Homepage: entry page for the longest-running Australian
source of satpix. A wide variety of colourised, enhanced infrared
images for Australia, sections of Australia, and GMS5 global and
sector images is available. A calibration
panel interprets the colours as cloud-top temperature ranges.
There is a backup
web server. Archives of several days' images are available
on the ftp
server -- the ausv
directory holds gifs of 3-hourly images for 3 days with times
and dates in UTC. Many of the images are in iff format: an iff
graphic viewer is available from JCU here -
read the readme file first. (29/03/06)
- Full
globe infrared and visible light images 3-hourly in a range
of resolutions from Dundee
University -- look for the link to "Japanese GMS" for
the full range of resolutions, or go to the one month archive
pages for full resolution infrared or visible images.
While they are full globe, the detail is excellent. Free registration is required. (29/03/06)
- The NASA Global
Interactive Geostationary Satellite Viewer shows an infrared
picture of clouds around around the world a couple of hours ago.
It is a composite from four geostationary satellites, and you
can click on any area to zoom in to a 14km resolution picture
-- very handy for ocean areas surrounding Austalia that aren't
covered by our local maps. There is an archive of the past 6 hours
satpix. From GHCC. (29/03/06)
- Antarctic
and Southern Ocean composite infrared satpic from AMRC; useful
for watching developments south and southwest of Australia. (29/03/06)
- An archive
of Australian IR and Visible images over the past few weeks
from the BoM. Files named IDE00005 are IR images, IDE00006 are Visible
light images and IDE00035 are enhanced IR images. The rest of the filename is the year, month, date,
hour and minute (UTC) of the image. (26/03/06)
- The
BoM Satellite Image Archive. Hourly full globe visible light
and IR satellite images going back to April 1999. During the first
week of each month, the previous month's images will be added.
Though the thumbnail images are small (~30k), there is enough
detail to see the broad cloud pattern over Australia. High resolution
satpix may be ordered from the Bureau, for a fee, through this
link. Very detailed information on the Bureau's Satellite Image
Archive, including technical papers, is
here. (07/04/00)
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