Images listed below can be found together in the "../Events/Current" directory on the server:

        http://www.osei.noaa.gov/

You can access this directory through the "Current" button in the navigation bar of the web site.

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Satellite information that appears in filenames below:
                    
G12 - GOES-12                                   
G10 - GOES-10 
G9  - GOES-9 
GJ  - MTSAT **see below
MT  - METEOSAT 
N5  - NOAA-15 
N6  - NOAA-16   
N7  - NOAA-17 
N8  - NOAA-18 
MO  - MODIS 
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For information on solar flares and geomagnetic storms be sure to visit NOAA's Space Environment Center at:  

{http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/} 
http://www.sec.noaa.gov/SWN/

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The following categories of significant events were searched for in imagery available in the Satellite Services Division of the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration:


        1. Fires -  no imagery posted
        2. Floods - no imagery posted 
        3. Tropical Systems- MTSAT
        4. Volcanoes - no imagery posted
        5. Ocean - no imagery posted
        6. Ice - no imagery posted
        7. Dust Storms - no imagery posted
        8. Storms - no imagery posted 
        9. Severe - no imagery posted 
        10. Snow Cover - no imagery posted
        11. Unique -  no imagery posted

Significant events identified by Satellite Analysis Branch meteorologists and reviewed by the Operational Significant 

Event Imagery support team Tuesday April 18, 2006 are as follows:


Tropical cyclone Monica is located in Coral Sea.


IMAGE D6059: MTSAT <> Multiple combined Image <> 04/18/2006 0:33 UTC RGB=CH(1,2).

Tropical cyclone Monica is located in Coral Sea near (12.9S 147.8E) and is moving westward at 08 knots, with 

maxmum sustained winds of 60 knots and gusts of 75 knots.
 

Image provided in preview (~62K) and standard (293K) formats.

Preview (500X472):
                                        
{http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCPacific108_GJL.jpg}
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCPacific108_GJL.jpg

Standard (800x550)

{http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCPacific108_GJ.jpg}
http://www.osei.noaa.gov/Events/Current/TRCPacific108_GJ.jpg
                                        

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The NOAA Operational Significant Event Imagery Support Team
Interactive Processing Branch, (E/SP22)
tel: (301) 763-8142
fax: (301) 899-9196

If you have any questions or comments, please contact the appropriate OSEI scientist:

Curtis Holland OSEI Team Leader

	         Curtis.Holland@noaa.gov  301-763-8142
   
Mark Ruminski    Mark.Ruminski@noaa.gov   301-763-8444
Jamie Kibler     Jamie.Kibler@noaa.gov    301-763-8444
Regis Walter     Regis.Walter@naaa.gov    301-763-8444
Nancy Merckle    Nancy.Merckle@noaa.gov   301-763-8444
Greg Gallina     Greg.Gallina@noaa.gov    301-763-8444
Jay Hanna        Jay.Hanna@noaa.gov       301-763-8444
Kyle Turner      Kyle.Turner@noaa.gov     301-763-8142