{"id":12078,"date":"2013-01-01T12:59:02","date_gmt":"2013-01-01T12:59:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12078"},"modified":"2013-01-03T22:12:32","modified_gmt":"2013-01-03T22:12:32","slug":"grounding-of-the-kulluk-oil-rig-off-kodiak-island-alaska","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12078","title":{"rendered":"Grounding of the Shell Kulluk oil rig off Kodiak Island, Alaska"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the intensification of a deep low pressure system that was moving northward in the western Gulf of Alaska during the 31 December 2012 – 01 January 2013 period. Strong storm-force winds and high seas associated with this storm played a role in the grounding of the Royal Dutch Shell Kulluk<\/strong><\/a> oil drilling rig around 9 PM local time on 31 December (or 06 UTC on 01 January), <\/em>just off Sitkalidak Island close to Kodiak Island’s<\/strong><\/a> southeast shore. PADQ denotes the location of the Kodiak Airport on the northeastern part of Kodiak Island.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

POES AVHRR 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR images<\/p><\/div>\n

A sequence of three AWIPS images of POES AVHRR 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m InfraRed (IR) data (above)<\/strong><\/em> showed the storm as its center was just south-southwest of Kodiak Island. In addition, a comparison of the 01 January 2013 00:16 UTC 0.86 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and the corresponding 12.0 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images is also shown (below)<\/strong><\/em>. Surface reports were plotted on the satellite images — the peak wind gust at buoy 46077 located just northwest of Kodiak Island in the Shelikof Strait was 51 knots or 59 mph at 00:16 UTC (3:16 PM local time on 31 December),<\/em> and ship NZPO located just southeast of Kodiak Island reported a sustained wind speed of 55 knots or 63 mph at 00:00 UTC (3:00 PM local time on 31 December)<\/em>.<\/p>\n

\"POES<\/a>

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

A time series of surface report data from Kodiak Airport PADQ (below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that a peak wind gust of 47 knots or 54 mph occurred at 04 UTC and 09 UTC on 01 January (or 7 PM and Midnight local time on the night of 31 December).<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Surface<\/a>

Surface observations at Kodiak (PADQ)<\/p><\/div>\n

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McIDAS images of GOES-15 6.5 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the intensification of a deep low pressure system that was moving northward in the western Gulf of Alaska during the 31 December 2012 – 01 January 2013 period. Strong storm-force winds and high seas associated with this storm […]<\/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":[37,22,43,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-avhrr","category-goes-15","category-poes"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078","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=12078"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12082,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12078\/revisions\/12082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}