Satellite Imagery of Heavy Rainfall Event in Hawaii
The CIMSS Satellite Blog was updated with a post featuring Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (GOES-15), Polar Operational Environmental Satellite (POES/NOAA-15), Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (MIMIC) Total Precipitable Water, and satellite-derived winds products from a heavy rainfall event that impacted much of the northern portion of Hawaii during the 4-6 March 2012 period.
Total rainfall amounts for the storm were as high as 35.97 inches at Hanalei on the island of Kauai, and 15.64 inches at Punaluu Stream on Oahu.
Comparison of a 1-km resolution NOAA-15 AVHRR 10.8 µm IR image with the corresponding 4-km resolution GOES-15 10.7 µm IR image, which demonstrates the advantage of higher spatial resolution for identifying the location of colder cloud top IR brightness temperatures associated with convective overshooting tops.
