Created by H&H · 7 Jul 2026

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Signals Before Floods

那些在洪水到来之前,天空已经发出的信号

GOES · NOAA/NESDIS/STAR — a young scientist's watch log

Before the water rises, the sky has already spoken — in bands of infrared, in drifting cloud tops, in signals only a satellite can read. I watch. I learn from the pixels, and from the machines that read them faster than I can.

水涨之前,天空早已开口——在红外的波段里,在云顶缓慢的漂移中,在唯有卫星能读懂的信号里。我观测,也向读懂这些信号的机器学习。

"The flood is never the first message. It is only the last one we ignored." 洪水从不是第一条讯息,只是我们最后才听见的那一条。

Watch Log — Seven Frames

七帧观测日志
GOES-West infrared, Tropical South Pacific Wide 01 / GOES-WEST · BAND 16
01

The wide watch

A whole ocean read in colour temperature — orange for warmth, blue for the cold tops of rising storms.

整片大洋以色温读出——橙色是暖,蓝色是升腾风暴的冷顶。

07 Jul 2026 · 13:00Z · Tropical South Pacific Wide
Cloud cluster thickening over the Pacific 02 / GOES-WEST · CLOSE PASS
02

The cluster gathers

What was scattered begins to close ranks. A pattern the eye can miss, a model does not.

零散的云开始聚拢。人眼容易错过的形态,模型不会。

GOES-West · infrared composite
Storm system spiraling wider 03 / GOES-WEST · WIDER SPIRAL
03

The spiral widens

Hours pass in a single frame. The shape that will matter is still deciding itself.

一帧图像里藏着数小时。那道将会决定一切的形状,仍在成形。

GOES-West · infrared composite
Water vapor composite over the central United States 04 / WATER VAPOR · CONUS
04

Moisture, mapped

Green for wet air, gold for dry — the sky's own topography, invisible until we chose to see it.

绿色是湿润的空气,金色是干燥——这是天空自己的地形,只是我们过去看不见。

Water vapor composite · continental scale
Radar-style storm bands over the Midwest 05 / STORM BAND · MIDWEST
05

The band tightens

Green climbs to yellow, yellow to a small red heart — the language of intensity, learned frame by frame.

绿色升成黄色,黄色里跳出一小片红——这是强度的语言,一帧一帧学会的。

Storm-relative composite
GOES-19 GEOCOLOR nightside composite over the Gulf 06 / GOES-19 · GEOCOLOR
06

Where the lights end

Cities glow gold below; past the coastline, only the storm has its own light.

城市的灯火在下方泛着金色;越过海岸线,只剩风暴自己的光。

06/18/2026 · 10:50Z · GOES-19 GEOCOLOR
Full-disk global composite with scattered storm cells 07 / FULL DISK · GLOBAL
07

Zoomed all the way out

From here, every flood is still just a signal — small, early, and, if we are paying attention, still ours to answer.

从这里看,每一场洪水都还只是一个信号——微小、提早,只要我们还在留意,就还来得及回应。

Full-disk composite · storm cells, global

I am a young scientist who watches the sky — not to fear it, but to understand it before the water does.

我是一名仰望天空的年轻科学家——不是为了畏惧,而是为了比洪水更早读懂它。在像素与概率之间,在模型与人眼之间,我相信我们终将守护每一个信任地平线的人。

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Citation & Thanks

Please cite as: GOES-R Series Program, (2019): NOAA GOES-R Series Advanced Baseline Imager (ABI) Level 0 Data. [indicate subset used]. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information. doi:10.25921/tvws-w071.

Thanks to Microsoft Planetary Computer — Home.

Thanks to GOES Rainfall Rate and Quantitative Precipitation Estimation (RRQPE) | Planetary Computer.

Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellites – R Series | NOAA/NASA.

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