{"id":113,"date":"2006-09-14T23:52:05","date_gmt":"2006-09-14T23:52:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/09\/14\/von-karman-vortex-streets\/"},"modified":"2006-09-15T16:46:33","modified_gmt":"2006-09-15T16:46:33","slug":"von-karman-vortex-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/113","title":{"rendered":"von Karman vortex street"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-11 visible image\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060914_g11_vis_15.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" align=\"middle\" title=\"GOES-11 visible image\" id=\"image111\" alt=\"GOES-11 visible image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060914_g11_vis_15.GIF\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nGOES-11 visible imagery <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a nice example of a von Karman vortex street downwind of Guadalupe Island (located off the west coast of Baja California: <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"MODIS true color image\" href=\"http:\/\/eosdb.ssec.wisc.edu\/modisdirect\/aqua\/calibratedImages\/2006\/257\/2006-09-14_2026-2033_USWE_010403_1KM.jpg\"><strong>MODIS true color image<\/strong><\/a>). Guadalupe Island has a maximum elevation of about 1.3 km, which was high enough to act as a barrier to the <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"GOES-11 visible image with winds\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/09\/060914_g11_vis_winds.GIF\"><strong>northwesterly boundary layer wind flow<\/strong><\/a>; the resulting vortex pattern is apparent in the marine stratoculumus field. A <a title=\"GOES-11 visible animation\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/blog\/060914_g11_vis.mov\"><strong>QuickTime animation<\/strong><\/a> shows the evolution of the individual vortex features &#8212; note that some vortex circulations are cyclonic, while others are anticyclonic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-11 visible imagery (above) revealed a nice example of a von Karman vortex street downwind of Guadalupe Island (located off the west coast of Baja California: MODIS true color image). Guadalupe Island has a maximum elevation of about 1.3 km, which was high enough to act as a barrier to the northwesterly boundary layer wind [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,18,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-11","category-marine-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","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=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}