{"id":12354,"date":"2013-02-14T23:43:13","date_gmt":"2013-02-14T23:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2013-10-22T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2013-10-22T18:15:44","slug":"bennett-island-cloud-plume","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12354","title":{"rendered":"Bennett Island cloud plume"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130213-14_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_bennett_island_plume_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130213-14_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_bennett_island_plume_6a.png\" width=\"480\" height=\"695\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<em><strong> (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> captured an example of a &#8220;<a title=\"Bennett Island plume\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/622\"><strong>Bennett Island cloud plume<\/strong><\/a>&#8221; off the north coast of Siberia on 13-14 February 2013. Minimum IR brightness temperature values reached -51 C during the early stages of plume development. Due to the orientation of the AWIPS II Northern Hemisphere map projection, the images were rotated 90 degrees to the left, so that North was approximately toward the top of the images. Full-resolution (375-meter) VIIRS data are now being distributed to Alaska Region AWIPS II users.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130214_ooz_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_500_winds_bennett_island_plume.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image with GFS190 500 hPa wind barbs\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130214_ooz_suomi_npp_viirs_ir_500_winds_bennett_island_plume.png\" width=\"479\" height=\"694\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR image with GFS190 500 hPa wind barbs<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A VIIRS IR image with an overlay of GFS190 model 500 hPa winds <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a generally light southeasterly flow of 10-20 knots across the region. This was in good agreement with rawinsonde data <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> from the Chokurdah, Russia site <em>(located south of Bennett Island, over northern Siberia)<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130214_00Z_21946_RAOB.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Chokurdah, Russia rawinsonde data plot\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130214_00Z_21946_RAOB.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Chokurdah, Russia rawinsonde data plot<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS II images of 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (above; click image to play animation) captured an example of a &#8220;Bennett Island cloud plume&#8221; off the north coast of Siberia on 13-14 February 2013. Minimum IR brightness temperature values reached -51 C during the early stages of plume development. Due [&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":[37,44,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arctic","category-awips-ii","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","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=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14187,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/14187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}