{"id":15531,"date":"2014-05-06T19:18:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-06T19:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15531"},"modified":"2014-05-07T18:41:25","modified_gmt":"2014-05-07T18:41:25","slug":"optimized-goes-13-scanning-becomes-operational","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15531","title":{"rendered":"Optimized GOES-13 Scanning becomes operational"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An optimization to the GOES-13 scanning schedule (<a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15068\">discussed here<\/a>) that provides, among other things, better coverage of the Caribbean Sea, became operation at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ssd.noaa.gov\/PS\/SATS\/MESS\/MSG1261848.01.txt\">1600 UTC<\/a> on May 6, 2014. Half-hourly imagery (in this case, 10.7 \u00b5m) from before the switch show intermittent coverage over the Caribbean Sea (at :15 and :45 minutes after the hour); CONUS imagery at :02 and :32, however, only extended to 14 N and to 63 W.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15534\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/GOES13_VIS_06May2014_12-14loop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15534\" class=\"wp-image-15534 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/GOES13_VIS_06May2014_12-14loop.gif\" alt=\"GOES13_VIS_06May2014_12-14loop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-13 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) Imagery, times as indicated, before the switch to an Optimized Schedule (click to enlarge)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-13 schedule optimization allows the :00 and :30 (note the slight shift in nominal time) images to scan to 5 N. (and also east to 54 W) Thus, an animation with 15-minute imagery (below) shows more complete coverage over the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15534\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/GOES13_VIS_06May2014_15-17loop.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15534\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15536\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/GOES13_VIS_06May2014_15-17loop.gif\" alt=\"GOES13_VIS_06May2014_15-17loop\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15534\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>GOES-13 Infrared (10.7 \u00b5m) Imagery, times as indicated, after the switch to an Optimized Schedule (click to enlarge)<\/strong><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An optimization to the GOES-13 scanning schedule (discussed here) that provides, among other things, better coverage of the Caribbean Sea, became operation at 1600 UTC on May 6, 2014. Half-hourly imagery (in this case, 10.7 \u00b5m) from before the switch show intermittent coverage over the Caribbean Sea (at :15 and :45 minutes after the hour); [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":15545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15531"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15546,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15531\/revisions\/15546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}