Hardcopy is limited to 16 grey levels at best, usually blurred by halftoning. To make a nice looking greyscale image within this limited range, we perform histogram equalization, but that does not help when the field contains bright cloudtops and dark ocean , unless you equalize in regions of similar brightness . Hurricane names for the 1990's . Hurricane basemap for the Atlantic . Data from geosynchronous satellites operating around the world can be used to construct global cloud cover composites every 3 hours .
Many illustrations erroneously point the boom at the Earth, such as our own mini-poster .
Kim Bryson, a botany major from Miami University of Ohio and summer student with the GOES Project Office, organized the GOES home pages in the summer of 1994. They look a lot different now.