{"id":11937,"date":"2012-12-03T22:57:32","date_gmt":"2012-12-03T22:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11937"},"modified":"2012-12-05T23:37:55","modified_gmt":"2012-12-05T23:37:55","slug":"super-typhoon-bopha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11937","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Bopha"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

Super Typhoon Bopha reached peak intensity (ADT plot<\/a><\/strong> | Advisory text<\/a><\/strong>) just before making landfall in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on 03 December 2012<\/a><\/strong>. Earlier in the day, a comparison of McIDAS-X images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data (above)<\/em><\/strong> revealed detailed patterns of cloud top wave structure: (1) the formation of “transverse bands” oriented perpendicular to the flow (which is fairly common in strong tropical cyclones),<\/em> and (2) an arc-shaped gravity wave train in the northwest quadrant, which was likely propagating outward, away from the storm center. There were also a number of convective overshooting tops which exhibited IR brightness temperatures of -90 to -95\u00c2\u00ba C (yellow enhancement)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"MTSAT-1R<\/a>

MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS-X images of MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed Super Typhoon Bopha as the eye made landfall around 20 UTC or 4 AM local time. Media reports indicated that there were as many as 270 fatalities as a result of flooding, mudslides, and falling trees.<\/p>\n

A few hours prior to landfall, a comparison of McIDAS-V<\/a><\/strong> images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR data (below;<\/strong> images courtesy of William Straka, CIMSS)<\/em> again showed a signature of gravity waves propagating outward from the storm center — at this time (17:09 UTC or 1:09 AM local time)<\/em> these gravity waves could be seen in all four quadrants of the storm top. The eye was not entirely cloud-free, with the Day\/Night Band image showing moonlight being reflected off of low-level stratus near the ocean surface.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n

During the 01-03 December period, the MIMIC<\/a><\/strong> or Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS product (below; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed that Bopha experienced multiple eyewall replacement cycles as it moved south of the island of Palau (where it produced a wind gust of 70 mph at Koror)<\/em> and toward the Philippines.<\/p>\n

\"Morphed<\/a>

Morphed Integrated Microwave Imagery at CIMSS (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

Bopha had an early storm track (below)<\/em><\/strong> that was unusually close to the Equator — in fact, the storm was classified as a typhoon at a latitude of 3.8\u00c2\u00ba N on 30 November, making it the closest typhoon formation to the Equator on record for the West Pacific Basin.<\/p>\n

\"Track<\/a>

Track of Super Typhoon Bopha<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super Typhoon Bopha reached peak intensity (ADT plot | Advisory text) just before making landfall in the island of Mindanao in the Philippines on 03 December 2012. Earlier in the day, a comparison of McIDAS-X images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data (above) revealed detailed […]<\/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":[51,20,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mcidas-v","category-mtsat","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937","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=11937"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11953,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11937\/revisions\/11953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}