{"id":15503,"date":"2014-05-01T23:59:49","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T23:59:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15503"},"modified":"2014-05-03T15:53:19","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T15:53:19","slug":"von-karman-vortex-street-downwind-of-madiera-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15503","title":{"rendered":"von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n vortex street downwind of Madeira Island"},"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\/2014\/05\/140501_met10_visible_von_karman_Madeira_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140501_MET10_VIS_VON_KARMAN_13.GIF\" alt=\"Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00b5m visible channel image (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00b5m visible channel image (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>McIDAS images of<a title=\"EUMETSAT\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eumetsat.int\/website\/home\/index.html\"> <strong>EUMETSAT<\/strong><\/a> Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00b5m visible channel data <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed a beautiful example of a von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n vortex street downwind of <a title=\"Madiera Island (Wikipedia)\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Madeira\"><strong>Madeira Island<\/strong><\/a> on 01 May 2014. Northeasterly winds in the marine boundary layer were perturbed by the topography of the island, whose highest point rises to an elevation of <span class=\"nowrap\">1,862 m<\/span> <span class=\"nowrap\">(6,109 ft) above sea level<\/span>. Note how some of the downwind vortices rotate in a clockwise direction, while other rotate counterclockwise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>McIDAS images of EUMETSAT Meteosat-10 0.75 \u00b5m visible channel data (above; click image to play animation) showed a beautiful example of a von K\u00e1rm\u00e1n vortex street downwind of Madeira Island on 01 May 2014. Northeasterly winds in the marine boundary layer were perturbed by the topography of the island, whose highest point rises to an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15504,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-meteosat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503","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=15503"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15508,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15503\/revisions\/15508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}