InternationalWeatherArchive.org  beta

1) Select satellite and area of interest

At this time International Weather Archive has imagery from U.S. NOAA GOES East, NOAA GOES West, EUMETSAT Meteosat-7, EUMETSAT Meteosat-9 and JMA MTSAT-1R geostationary weather satellites.  This provide global coverage. Select the desired satellite.

For most satellites you can select from multiple areas including Full Disk.  Select the region of interest.

For more information on satellites, see details here.

2) Set your start time and end times

Select the start and end dates and times of the images you would like view.

Following international weather standards, times are in UTC.  If you are not familiar with UTC time, see Wikipedia's article:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time

Note, that if you have a slow Internet connection, or an older computer, you may have to use a smaller range of dates to get good performance from the satellite viewer.

3) Press

Any time satellite, area, dates or times are changed, you must press one of the play buttons (,, )  to accept your new satellite settings and times. 

Note, that if you start select a large number of images (more than 100), it may take some time before your browser has images downloaded and its display is updated.

The player controls allow you to play the series of images in a loop. When the viewer is first opened, the earliest image is displayed.

To begin the loop, press the "Play" button. You can also play the images backwards in time, and "sweep" backwards and forwards through the images, as well as control the speed at which you view the images.

	Play images forward in time
	Pause image play
	Play images backwards in time
	Sweep play of images forward in time, and then backwards in time, and then forward, etc..
	Decrease play speed
	Increase play speed
The scrollbar serves 2 functions: 1) Displaying current image location The left side of the scrollbar indicates that the earleir images are now being viewed, while the right side indicates that the later images are being viewed. 2) Manually moving image location  To move the scrollbar manually click on a the portion of the scrollbar to the left or right of the handle. This will move the the previous or next image. You can also click on the handle, leave the mouse button pressed down and drag it left or right. This gives you very powerful control of which image is being viewed.