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#NOAA’s #GOESU #weather #satellite is scheduled to launch Tues evening from #NASA’s Kennedy #Space Center, extending a decades-long record of terrestrial weather & #solar observations as part of NOAA’s #GOES program.

NOAA’s GOES program is probably best known for providing advanced imagery & measurements of the western hemisphere’s weather, #atmosphere, #oceans & #lightning. The info is critical in helping weather forecasters ID & track events, like #hurricanes & #wildfires.

#Methane on my mind

20y ago, methane concentrations stabilized, giving hope we’d at least addressed one greenhouse gas, but then its concentrations took off again, esp the last 3yrs.

Neat proof of concept pre-print Watine-Guiu, Varon etal :
eartharxiv.org/repository/view

The U.S. Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite (#GOES) can detect methane leaks, and their geostationary orbit allows them to monitor these leaks, yielding better estimates for volume (provided cloud free skies).