{"id":12713,"date":"2013-04-22T16:32:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-22T16:32:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12713"},"modified":"2013-04-22T18:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-04-22T18:38:16","slug":"earth-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12713","title":{"rendered":"Earth Day 2013"},"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\/04\/130422_global_ir_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Global composite of geostationary IR images at 12:00 UTC (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"Global composite of geostationary IR images at 12:00 UTC (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/spincg1040.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global composite of geostationary IR images at 12:00 UTC (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In honor of <a title=\"Earth Day\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nelsonearthday.net\/earth-day\/\"><strong>Earth Day<\/strong><\/a>, we offer a glimpse of the cloud cover across the planet, using a rotating global composite of geostationary IR images <em>(data from the GOES-East, GOES-West, Meteosat, and MTSAT satellites)<\/em> at 12:00 UTC on 22 April 2013 <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>. The most recent rotating global IR composite<em> (updated every 3 hours)<\/em> can be seen <a title=\"latest rotating global IR composite\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/globe\/spincg.html\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/comp\/cmoll\/cmoll.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Global composite of IR imagery, land surface temperature, and sea surface temperature (click image for most recent animation)\" alt=\"lobal composite of IR imagery, land surface temperature, and sea surface temperature (click image for most recent animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/130422_12z_global_ir_sst.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global composite of IR imagery, land surface temperature, and sea surface temperature (click image for most recent animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other global satellite image composites created at <a title=\"Space Science and Engineering Center\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>SSEC<\/strong><\/a> include IR, surface air temperature, and sea surface temperature<em><strong> (above; click image for most recent animation)<\/strong><\/em> and water vapor channel\u00c2\u00a0 imagery <em><strong>(below; click image for most recent animation)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ssec.wisc.edu\/data\/comp\/wvmoll.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Global composite of water vapor imagery (click image for most recent animation)\" alt=\"Global composite of water vapor imagery (click image for most recent animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/04\/130422_12z_global_wv_composite.gif\" width=\"480\" height=\"262\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Global composite of water vapor imagery (click image for most recent animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In honor of Earth Day, we offer a glimpse of the cloud cover across the planet, using a rotating global composite of geostationary IR images (data from the GOES-East, GOES-West, Meteosat, and MTSAT satellites) at 12:00 UTC on 22 April 2013 (above; click image to play animation). The most recent rotating global IR composite (updated [&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":[10,11,43,23,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-goes-15","category-meteosat","category-mtsat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713","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=12713"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12720,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12713\/revisions\/12720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}