The Arctic Satellite Composite Project

What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic. Conditions on and around the Earth's northern cap affect weather and climate around the globe, particularly in the midlatitudes. After 15 years of providing Antarctic satellite image composites, AMRC now provides similar composites of the Arctic. These images facilitate investigations and analyses of conditions on and around the Arctic.

AMRC generates a new composite image every three hours, or synoptic hour, creating a total of eight images per day. Most satellite images included in the composite were procured within 15 minutes of the top of the synoptic hour. No image is more than +/- 50 minutes from the top of the synoptic hour. Satellites used to generate the composite can include: POES/NOAA, GOES -East and –West, METOSAT, MTSAT, FY-2, Kalpana-1, and Terra/Aqua.

See a first generation sample Arctic composites here.