{"id":10266,"date":"2012-05-03T22:34:23","date_gmt":"2012-05-03T22:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10266"},"modified":"2012-05-09T01:53:16","modified_gmt":"2012-05-09T01:53:16","slug":"mesoscale-convective-vortex-in-the-gulf-of-mexico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10266","title":{"rendered":"Mesoscale Convective Vortex in the Gulf of Mexico"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of large thunderstorms over the far eastern Gulf of Mexico during the pre-dawn hours on 03 May 2012<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Better detail of the cold convective cloud tops could be seen in a series of 1-km resolution POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR and MODIS 11.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the formation of a mesoscale convective vortex (MCV) after the night-time convection dissipated.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

A GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image at 16:10 UTC with an overlay of ASCAT scatterometer surface winds at 16:05 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> suggested that the MCV was causing a perturbation in the general southeasterly flow as it was beginning to organize.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image + ASCAT scatterometer surface winds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of 4-km resolution GOES-13 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of large thunderstorms over the far eastern Gulf of Mexico during the pre-dawn hours on 03 May 2012. Better detail of the cold convective cloud tops could be seen in a series of 1-km resolution […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,11,12,47,26,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-other-satellites","category-poes","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10266"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10299,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10266\/revisions\/10299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}