{"id":13436,"date":"2013-07-19T04:04:06","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T04:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=13436"},"modified":"2013-07-22T20:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-22T20:00:45","slug":"midget-typhoon-over-the-west-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/13436","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Midget&#8221; tropical cyclone over the West Pacific Ocean?"},"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\/07\/130717-19_mtsat_vis_ir_midget_typhoon_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MTSAT-2 visible (daytime) and IR (night-time) images\" alt=\"MTSAT-2 visible (daytime) and IR (night-time) images\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/130717-19_MTSAT_VIS_IR_MIDGET_TYPHOON_WPAC_16.GIF\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-2 visible (daytime) and IR (night-time) images<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of MTSAT-2 0.675 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images <em>(during daytime)<\/em> and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images <em>(during the night)<\/em> revealed the signature of what could be a &#8220;midget&#8221; tropical cyclone which was moving westward across the western Pacific Ocean during the 17 July &#8211; 19 July period <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>MTSAT-2 6.75 \u00c2\u00b5m water vapor channel images with overlays of satellite wind derived deep-layer wind shear from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic.php#\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed that the region near 21\u00c2\u00ba North latitude 130\u00c2\u00ba East longitude was experiencing generally light to moderate northeasterly wind shear during this time period.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/130718_mtsat_wv_shear_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" \" title=\"MTSAT-2 water vapor images + deep layer wind shear\" alt=\"MTSAT-2 water vapor images + deep layer wind shear\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2013\/07\/130719_00z_mtsat_wv_shear.gif\" width=\"479\" height=\"301\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MTSAT-2 water vapor images + deep layer wind shear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of MTSAT-2 0.675 \u00c2\u00b5m visible channel images (during daytime) and 10.8 \u00c2\u00b5m IR channel images (during the night) revealed the signature of what could be a &#8220;midget&#8221; tropical cyclone which was moving westward across the western Pacific Ocean during the 17 July &#8211; 19 July period (above; click image to play animation). MTSAT-2 [&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":[20,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mtsat","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436","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=13436"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13438,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13436\/revisions\/13438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}