{"id":11570,"date":"2012-10-15T19:44:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11570"},"modified":"2012-10-15T19:44:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-15T19:44:09","slug":"tropical-storm-rafael","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11570","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Rafael"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel and 0.8 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band image<\/p><\/div>\n

Tropical Storm Rafael<\/strong><\/a> was slowly intensifying over the Atlantic Ocean north-northeast of Puerto Rico on 15 October 2012<\/strong>. McIDAS-V<\/strong><\/a> images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel and 0.8 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band data at 05:33 UTC (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS)<\/strong><\/em> showed cloud top IR brightness temperatures colder than -85 C<\/strong> (violet color enhancement),<\/em> as well as city lights from the islands of the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and other nearby islands.<\/p>\n

A 08:25 UTC SSMI-15 85 GHz microwave image from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a ragged banding structure that suggested Rafael was trying to form an organized eye.<\/p>\n

\"SSMI-15<\/a>

SSMI-15 85 GHz microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n

A comparison of AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data at 14:08 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> offered a close-up view of the central dense overcast region of Rafael, with transverse banding forming along the periphery and convective overshooting tops with IR brightness temperatures as cold as -93 C<\/strong> (darker violet color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

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Tropical Storm Rafael was slowly intensifying over the Atlantic Ocean north-northeast of Puerto Rico on 15 October 2012. McIDAS-V images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel and 0.8 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band data at 05:33 UTC (above; courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS) showed cloud top IR brightness temperatures colder than -85 C (violet color […]<\/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":[22,51,47,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11570","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-avhrr","category-mcidas-v","category-other-satellites","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570","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=11570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11571,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11570\/revisions\/11571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}