{"id":12390,"date":"2013-02-17T23:59:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T23:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12390"},"modified":"2013-02-19T02:11:16","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T02:11:16","slug":"eddy-off-the-coast-of-southern-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12390","title":{"rendered":"Eddy off the coast of southern California"},"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\/130217_g15_vis_san_clemente_eddy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"  \" title=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images with surface wind barbs (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images with surface wind barbs (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130217_G15_VIS_SAN_CLEMENTE_EDDY_25.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images with surface wind barbs (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the development of a mesoscale eddy immediately downwind of San Clemente Island off the coast of southern California on <strong><a title=\"17 February 2013 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130217.html\">17 February 2013<\/a><\/strong>. The eddy was helping to push the marine boundary layer farther inland, bringing stratus clouds and cooler temperatures to some coastal locations.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of AWIPS images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel data <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> revealed that cloud top IR brightness temperatures of the marine layer stratus were in the 6-7\u00c2\u00ba C range <em>(darker blue color enhancement)<\/em>.<\/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\/130217_2112z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_ir_CA_eddy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/02\/130217_2112z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_ir_CA_eddy_anim.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A 250-meter resolution Aqua MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the <strong><a title=\"SSEC MODIS Direct Broadcast site\" href=\"http:\/\/eosweb.ssec.wisc.edu\/cgi-bin\/eosdb.cgi\">SSEC MODIS Direct Broadcast<\/a><\/strong> site <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong> showed the fine structure of the center of the eddy circulation.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/eosweb.ssec.wisc.edu\/browse_images\/aqua\/2013\/048\/2013-02-17_2051-2058_HSDO_010403_QKM.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image\" src=\"http:\/\/eosweb.ssec.wisc.edu\/browse_images\/aqua\/2013\/048\/2013-02-17_2051-2058_HSDO_010403_QKM.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed the development of a mesoscale eddy immediately downwind of San Clemente Island off the coast of southern California on 17 February 2013. The eddy was helping to push the marine boundary layer farther inland, bringing stratus clouds and cooler [&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":[43,12,45,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-goes-15","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390","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=12390"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12393,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12390\/revisions\/12393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}