{"id":12888,"date":"2013-05-13T23:59:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T23:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=12888"},"modified":"2013-05-15T20:44:50","modified_gmt":"2013-05-15T20:44:50","slug":"formation-of-an-otter-eddy-in-monterey-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/12888","title":{"rendered":"Formation of an &#8220;Otter Eddy&#8221; in Monterey Bay, 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\/05\/130513_g15_vis_mry_otter_eddy_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130513_G15_VIS_MRY_07.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (click image to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Strong northwesterly winds along the California coast interacted with the complex terrain and orientation of Monterey Bay to promote the formation of a cyclonic coastal eddy <em>(known locally as an &#8220;Otter Eddy&#8221;)<\/em> early in the day on <a title=\"13 May 2013 daily weaather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20130513.html\"><strong>13 May 2013<\/strong><\/a>. McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(above; click image to play animation)<\/em><\/strong> showed the evolution of the eddy feature, which gradually dissipated by the early afternoon hours. &#8220;MRY&#8221; denotes the location of Monterey.<\/p>\n<p>Farther to the north, an interesting type of &#8220;bow shock wave&#8221; formed downwind of Point Reyes <em>(labelled &#8220;PR&#8221; on the images)<\/em>. Better detail of this feature could be seen in an AWIPS image of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data <strong><em>(below)<\/em><\/strong>. At the time of this image, surface winds at the offshore buoy just to the north of Point Reyes were gusting to 33 knots <em>(38 mph)<\/em>.<\/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\/05\/130513_2122z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_metars_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/05\/130513_2122z_suomi_npp_viirs_vis_metars_anim.gif\" width=\"479\" height=\"340\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Strong northwesterly winds along the California coast interacted with the complex terrain and orientation of Monterey Bay to promote the formation of a cyclonic coastal eddy (known locally as an &#8220;Otter Eddy&#8221;) early in the day on 13 May 2013. McIDAS images of GOES-15 0.63 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) [&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":[10,43,8,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-15","category-marine-weather","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888","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=12888"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12893,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12888\/revisions\/12893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}