{"id":10781,"date":"2012-07-10T20:54:24","date_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=10781"},"modified":"2012-07-10T20:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-07-10T20:56:04","slug":"hurricane-emilia-in-the-east-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/10781","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Emilia in the East Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120709_g15_vis_emilia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120709_G15_VIS_EMILIA_18.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"479\" height=\"359\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed that <a title=\"Hurricane Emilia (NHC advisory archive)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2012\/EMILIA.shtml?\"><strong>Hurricane Emilia<\/strong><\/a> was beginning to exhibit as well-defined eye as it rapidly intensified over the East Pacific Ocean on <a title=\"09 July 2012 OPC surface analysis\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120709_18z_surface_analysis.jpg\"><strong>09 July 2012<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>During the subsequent night-time hours, an eye signature was still evident on 4-km resolution GOES-15 1-.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>. Cloud top IR brightness temperatures were as cold as <strong>-82 C<\/strong> <em>(violet color enhancement)<\/em> at 06:00 UTC.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120709-10_g15_ir_emilia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120709-10_G15_IR_EMILIA_11.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Emilia was in an environment of low deep-layer <em>(850-200 hPa)<\/em> wind shear <em><strong>(below),<\/strong><\/em> which was one factor that favored intensification.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120710_g15_ir_shear_emilia_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images + Deep layer wind shear\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/07\/120710_g15_ir_shear_emilia_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images + Deep layer wind shear\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images + Deep layer wind shear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of 1-km resolution GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed that Hurricane Emilia was beginning to exhibit as well-defined eye as it rapidly intensified over the East Pacific Ocean on 09 July 2012. During the subsequent night-time hours, an eye signature was still evident on 4-km resolution [&hellip;]<\/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":[43,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781","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=10781"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10783,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10781\/revisions\/10783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}