{"id":11994,"date":"2012-12-16T23:59:40","date_gmt":"2012-12-16T23:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=11994"},"modified":"2012-12-19T22:56:39","modified_gmt":"2012-12-19T22:56:39","slug":"cyclone-evan-in-the-southwest-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/11994","title":{"rendered":"Cyclone Evan in the Southwest Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/121216_mtsat_ir_evan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/121216_mtsat_ir_evan_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An animation of 4-km resolution MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images from the <strong><a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\">CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed Category 4 Cyclone Evan passing just to the northwest of the Fiji island of Vanue Levu on <strong>16 December 2012<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>A closer view using a McIDAS image of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data at 13:12 UTC <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> revealed a number of concentric cloud-top gravity waves that were likely propagating outward away from the center of the tropical cyclone. The minimum IR brightness temperature in the core of the large yellow-enhanced area northwest of the eye was -98\u00c2\u00ba C.<\/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\/12\/121216_SUOMI_NPP_VIIRS_I5_EVAN.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/121216_SUOMI_NPP_VIIRS_I5_EVAN.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A subtle signature of these cloud-top gravity waves could also be seen on early-morning 1-km resolution MTSAT-1R 0.73 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/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\/12\/121216_mtsat_vis_evan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MTSAT-1R 0.73 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/121216_mtsat_vis_evan_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-1R 0.73 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>===== 17 December Update =====<\/strong><\/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\/12\/121217_mtsat_ir_evan_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/121217_mtsat_ir_evan_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images from 17 December <strong><em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> showed Cyclone Evan passing the western edge of the main isand of Fiji <em>(Viti Levu),<\/em> where it produced a wind gust to <strong><a title=\"Nadi, Fiji surface reports\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2012\/12\/NFFN.text\">90 knots <em>(104 mph)<\/em> at Nadi<\/a><\/strong> (station identifier NFFN).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An animation of 4-km resolution MTSAT-1R 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (above) showed Category 4 Cyclone Evan passing just to the northwest of the Fiji island of Vanue Levu on 16 December 2012. A closer view using a McIDAS image of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel [&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":[20,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","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\/11994","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=11994"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12000,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11994\/revisions\/12000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}