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These real-time and forecast satellite images and derivative animations predominantly depict atmospheric and meteorological phenomena (including water vapor) in either the visible or infrared (IR) spectrums. Updates are made at intervals ranging from 15 minutes to 48 hours. Of particular note are a series of real-time Composite Satellite Images, including the Space Science and Engineering Center's (SSEC) Global Montage (an animation), the Rotating Globe movie, and an Antarctic Composite. The forecast images cover national and regional scales, and predict wind speed, precipitation, surface temperature, precipitable water, absolute vorticity, and mean sea pressure. For site-specific locales there are time series plots of temperature, dew point temperature, wind barbs and accumulated precipitation. Satellite data derived from the Geostationary Operation Environmental Spectroradiometer (GOES) Sounder, including images (and animations) is based either on individual bands or multiband composites depicting precipitable water, lifted index, cloud top pressure, sea surface temperature, and total column ozone. In addition to the atmospheric data on the site are up-to-date Sea Surface Temperature maps, as well as images and animations of the world's ten most active volcanoes.

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