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blizzard-goes-bombogenesis·dataset

Satellite View of a Rapidly Intensifying Blizzard (Jan 4, 2018)

GOES Imagery - Bombogenesis (Select Event)
atmosphere NASA VEDA COG
In plain English

What it measures. A single true-color satellite image of a winter storm undergoing 'bomb cyclogenesis' (rapidly strengthening) and producing blizzard conditions on January 4, 2018.

How it's made. Captured by the GOES weather satellite as a natural-color, three-band image.

How & where you'd use it. Shows the storm's structure from space, illustrating how quickly a blizzard can explode in strength.

What's measured

blizzardgoesbombogenesis

Coverage & cadence

  • Time span2018-01-04 → 2018-01-04
  • Spatial extent-98.002, 20.003, -38.003, 55.003
  • FormatsCOG

What you can do with it

  • Map air pollutants — NO₂, aerosols, ozone
  • Track greenhouse gases and Earth's energy budget
  • Feed weather and air-quality analysis
Official description

Single GOES TrueColor three-band image of a mid-latitude cyclone undergoing bomb cyclogenesis and producing blizzard conditions on January 4, 2018.

Get the data

veda_access.py
# NASA VEDA — open STAC API, anonymous (cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs)
from pystac_client import Client

cat = Client.open("https://openveda.cloud/api/stac")
col = cat.get_collection("blizzard-goes-bombogenesis")
items = list(col.get_items())          # browse the analysis-ready COGs
# open an asset with rioxarray:
# import rioxarray; da = rioxarray.open_rasterio(items[0].assets["cog_default"].href)
NASA VEDA is an open STAC catalog — browse and stream the cloud-optimized GeoTIFFs anonymously (no login).