{"id":1072,"date":"2008-09-23T23:51:24","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T23:51:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=1072"},"modified":"2008-09-26T00:12:41","modified_gmt":"2008-09-26T00:12:41","slug":"goes-11-vs-goes-13-water-vapor-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/1072","title":{"rendered":"GOES-11 vs GOES-13 water vapor channel images"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/09\/080923_g11_g13_anim.gif\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-11 and GOES-13 water vapor images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2008\/09\/080923_g11_g13_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-11 and GOES-13 water vapor channel images\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-11 and GOES-13 water vapor images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of GOES-11 6.7\u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-13 6.5\u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; images from <a title=\"23 September 2008 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20080923.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>23 September 2008<\/strong><\/a> <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> highlights two important changes to the GOES-13 satellite:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>the spatial resolution of the GOES-13 water vapor channel imagery has been improved to  <strong>4km<\/strong> (compared to <strong>8km<\/strong> on GOES-11), which allows for more accurate detection of mesoscale &#8220;mountain waves&#8221; <em>(or &#8220;lee waves&#8221;)<\/em> that had formed over  Wyoming and adjacent portions of Colorado and Montana<\/li>\n<li>larger batteries on board GOES-13 allow the satellite to continue to operate through Spring and Fall season &#8220;eclipse periods&#8221;, when the satellite is in the Earth&#8217;s shadow (and the solar panels cannot generate the necessary power for the instruments). The blank GOES-11 images seen in the animation above indicate outages  during the GOES-11 eclipse period<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A comparison of GOES-11 6.7\u00c2\u00b5m and GOES-13 6.5\u00c2\u00b5m &#8220;water vapor channel&#8221; images from 23 September 2008 (above) highlights two important changes to the GOES-13 satellite: the spatial resolution of the GOES-13 water vapor channel imagery has been improved to 4km (compared to 8km on GOES-11), which allows for more accurate detection of mesoscale &#8220;mountain waves&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-goes-13"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072","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=1072"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1072\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}