{"id":15577,"date":"2014-05-07T23:59:26","date_gmt":"2014-05-07T23:59:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=15577"},"modified":"2014-05-08T02:50:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T02:50:58","slug":"tropical-invest-90e-in-the-eastern-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/15577","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Invest 90E in the eastern 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\/2014\/05\/140506-07_mimic_tpw_invest_ep902014_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/MIMIC_TPW_20140507_0000.png\" alt=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>AWIPS images of the <a title=\"MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/real-time\/mimic-tpw\/global2\/main.html\"><strong>MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the well-defined cyclonic circulation associated with Tropical Invest 90E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during the 06 May &#8211; 07 May 2014 period.<\/p>\n<p>Overlays of the tropical surface analysis at 6-hour intervals <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicted that the area of low pressure formed in the region of a fracture in the InterTropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ) \/ Monsoon Trough off the southwest coast of Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140507_mimic_tpw_tropical_surface_analysis_invest_ep902014_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140507_mimic_tpw_tropical_surface_analysis_invest_ep902014_anim.gif\" alt=\"MIMIC TPW product with tropical surface analyses\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC TPW product with tropical surface analyses<\/p><\/div>\n<p>An overpass of a polar-orbiting Metop satellite provided ASCAT surface scatterometer winds at 16:41 UTC <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>. The strongest winds were generally in the 20-30 knot range.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/Scat_Winds_-_10m_20140507_1641.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/Scat_Winds_-_10m_20140507_1641.png\" alt=\"MIMIC TPW product with Metop ASCAT winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">MIMIC TPW product with Metop ASCAT winds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Near the end of the day, the lowering sun angle helped to highlight shadowing on GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(below; click to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> associated with overshooting tops in the eastern quadrant of the low; the <a title=\"Tropical Overshooting Tops (TOT) product\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/tot\/info.html\"><strong>Tropical Overshooting Tops<\/strong><\/a> product helped to unambiguously highlight the location of these overshooting top features.<\/p>\n<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\/140507_g15_vis_tot_invest_90e_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/05\/140507_g15_vis_tot_invest_90e.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images, with Tropical Overshooting Tops product (click to play animation\" width=\"480\" height=\"315\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images, with Tropical Overshooting Tops product (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (above; click image to play animation) showed the well-defined cyclonic circulation associated with Tropical Invest 90E in the Eastern Pacific Ocean during the 06 May &#8211; 07 May 2014 period. Overlays of the tropical surface analysis at 6-hour intervals (below) indicted that the area of low [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":15578,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,58,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-15","category-metop","category-satellite-winds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577","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=15577"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15581,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15577\/revisions\/15581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}