Why is the hourly data from GOES-E and GOES-W incomplete?
The schedule for the GOES-E and GOES-W satellites varies from hour to hour. In particular, unlike the EUMETSAT and Japanese satellites, they do not provide an hourly scan of the whole earth disk. Instead, they have a 3-hourly full-disk scan, and a more frequent higher-resolution scans of other regions such as the North American region, hurricane regions etc. Consequently, the hourly data varies in visible content with the 0300, 0600 etc scans being full-disk, and the intermediate scans (0100 0200 0400 0500 etc.) just covering North America. If you are animating South America, you may prefer to use just the 3-hourly scans.
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