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- 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,
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- 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
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