{"id":1139,"date":"2008-10-03T23:17:46","date_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:17:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=1139"},"modified":"2008-10-03T23:36:03","modified_gmt":"2008-10-03T23:36:03","slug":"pacific-moisture-plume-and-strong-jet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/1139","title":{"rendered":"Pacific moisture plume and strong jet"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"AWIPS<\/a>

AWIPS images of geostationary satellite water vapor channel data<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of geostationary satellite water vapor channel data (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a long moisture plume moving across the Pacific Ocean toward the west coast of the US on 02-03 October 2008<\/strong>. A comparison of GOES-11 water vapor channel data with POES (AMSU) and SSM\/I Total Precipitable Water (TPW) products (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that TPW values were as high as 50-60 mm (2.0-2.4 inches)<\/em> within this moisture plume. The MIMIC TPW product<\/strong><\/a> suggested that this moisture plume originated over the western Pacific Ocean, southeast of Japan.<\/p>\n

\"AWIPS<\/a>

AWIPS images of POES TPW products and GOES water vapor channel<\/p><\/div>\n

This moisture plume was associated with a strong polar jet stream, as seen by an overlay of hourly MADIS atmospheric motion vectors on GOES water vapor channel imagery (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES<\/a>

GOES water vapor images + MADIS winds<\/p><\/div>\n

The 18 UTC GFS model fields were forecasting maximum winds in the core of the jet to reach 170 knots (below)<\/strong><\/em> — there were a few MADIS<\/strong><\/a> wind vectors with speeds of 177-181 knots around that time (and a MADIS wind vector with a speed of 191 knots<\/strong> was seen at 21 UTC)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"GFS<\/a>

GFS winds + MADIS winds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of geostationary satellite water vapor channel data (above) showed a long moisture plume moving across the Pacific Ocean toward the west coast of the US on 02-03 October 2008. A comparison of GOES-11 water vapor channel data with POES (AMSU) and SSM\/I Total Precipitable Water (TPW) products (below) revealed that TPW values were […]<\/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":[18,26,25,31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1139","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-11","category-poes","category-satellite-winds","category-synthetic-satellite-imagery"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139","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=1139"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1142,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1139\/revisions\/1142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}