OCTANE Mesoscale vs CONUS Speed

In a more contaminated sky, it appears the mesoscale speed product handled low level flow better when compared to the CONUS Speed. In the CONUS direction, it showed more of an easterly cloud movement; that movement could imply the 5 minute data was getting more of an influence from a thin cirrus layer.

 

Figure 1: OCTANE CONUS Speed product (colder anvil tops were filtered out with the white scale)

Figure 2: OCTANE  Mesoscale  Speed image valid from the same time as Figure 1. This shows the more accurate low level flow.

 -wxboi