This small gallery shows images from the tropical storm Rosita, in the Southern Indian Ocean, off the coast of Australlia, just before Rosita made land fall. The sustained winds at that moment were 125 mph. The event took place April 19, 2000. The algorithm has been updated since the data was processed on April 19th 2000. The resolution is 1 km.
Red colors indicate maximum reflectance.
The bluish colors are where atmosphere is most transparent. The areas where the algorithm doesn't work are masked in black. This parameter has a long name of Total Column Precipitable Water Vapor. Red colors indicate maximum amount of water. Extracted are high clouds with 6.7 um and CO2 test, and thin cirrus with infrared test.