{"id":12277,"date":"2013-02-01T21:59:19","date_gmt":"2013-02-01T21:59:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12277"},"modified":"2013-02-02T18:37:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T18:37:40","slug":"interesting-features-seen-on-suomi-npp-viirs-daynight-band-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12277","title":{"rendered":"Interesting features seen on Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band images"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel, and IR brightness temperature difference “fog\/stratus product” images<\/p><\/div>\n

On a comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel, and IR brightness temperature difference “fog\/stratus product” data at 08:09 UTC or 2:09 AM local time on 01 February 2013<\/a><\/strong> (above),<\/em><\/strong> one prominent feature that stood out across the middle of the Day\/Night Band image was the broad swath of fresh snow cover that extended northeastward from Kansas to Wisconsin. This band of snow cover resulted from a winter storm that produced snowfall amounts as high as 4.0 inches in Kansas, 6.0 inches in Nebraska, 7.8 inches in Iowa, and 12.0 inches in Wisconsin on 29-30 January (snowfall map<\/a><\/strong>). The IR and “fog\/stratus product” images indicated that some layers of stratus clouds were moving over the southwestern portion of the snow swath (over Kansas and Nebraska),<\/em> but the edge of the snow swath could still be seen throgh these thin cloud features.<\/p>\n

Cold air in the wake of the storm then caused laked-effect snows in excess of 12 inches across parts of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. A close-up view of Lake Superior using the VIIRS Day\/Night Band and IR channel images (below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the widespread lake-effect snow bands, which showed up nicely due to the “visible image at night” utility of the Day\/Night Band (provided that there is adequate illumination by moonlight)<\/em>.<\/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

Also of interest were a series of long, very narrow streaks of snow cover across parts of Illinois — in particular, the one than ran just southwest of Springfiled KSPI — which could be seen on the Day\/Night Band image at 08:09 UTC or 2:09 AM local time, and again during the daytime at 17:50 UTC or 11:50 AM local time (below)<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On a comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00c2\u00b5m Day\/Night Band, 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel, and IR brightness temperature difference “fog\/stratus product” data at 08:09 UTC or 2:09 AM local time on 01 February 2013 (above), one prominent feature that stood out across the middle of the Day\/Night Band image was the […]<\/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":[49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277","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=12277"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12289,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12277\/revisions\/12289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}