Movie 5. Demonstration of MIMIC-IR for Hurricane Wilma (2005) from 0000 UTC 20 October to 1200 UTC 22 October. The infrared layer is the GOES-12 longwave infrared brightness temperature, adjusted for parallax assuming cloudtops at 15 km and matched to the nearest display time. The PCT layer is semitransparent over the infrared layer, and it is corrected for parallax assuming a signal peak at 7 km in height. The semitransparent PCT layer allows breaks in the cloud cap to be seen as a darkening of PCT colors. Solid yellow areas are "no microwave data" regions. The microwave PCT later is created from 16 microwave overpasses.


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