{"id":16482,"date":"2014-08-19T19:34:45","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T19:34:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16482"},"modified":"2014-08-20T02:11:37","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T02:11:37","slug":"goes-14-srsor-tropical-storm-lowell-in-the-east-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16482","title":{"rendered":"GOES-14 SRSOR: Tropical Storm Lowell in the East 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\/08\/140819_goes14_visible_Lowell_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140819_G14_VIS_SRSOR_LOWELL_100.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-14 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play Animated GIF)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-14 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play Animated GIF)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The GOES-14 satellite was in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (<a title=\"Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR)\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/srsor2014\/GOES-14_SRSOR.html\"><strong>SRSOR<\/strong><\/a>) mode, providing coverage of <a title=\"Tropical Storm Lowell (NHC advisory archive)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2014\/LOWELL.shtml?\"><strong>Tropical Storm Lowell<\/strong><\/a> in the East Pacific Ocean on 19 August 2014; an animation of 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (<a title=\"Animated GIF\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140819_goes14_visible_Lowell_anim.gif\"><strong>Animated GIF<\/strong><\/a> | <a title=\"MP4 movie file\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140819_goes14_visible_Lowell_anim.mp4\"><strong>MP4 movie file<\/strong><\/a> | <a title=\"YouTube\" href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/X3co7D5vfXA\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a>) showed a gradual increase in the organization of a convective banding structure during the day. At 12 UTC Tropical Storm Lowell was located several hundred miles southwest of Baja California, with a center at 15.5\u00ba North latitude, 119.5\u00ba West longitude.<\/p>\n<p>GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images with an overlay of Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the the strongest winds <em>(40.0-49.9 knots, yellow barbs)<\/em> were in the southeastern quadrant of Lowell at 17:11 UTC.<\/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\/08\/140819_goes15_ir_ascat_Lowell_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140819_goes15_ir_ascat_Lowell_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR images with Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR images with Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A comparison of the 16 UTC GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel image with the corresponding DMSP SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> indicated that the highest rainfall rates were associated with the convective banding\u00a0 (and coldest cloud tops) within the southern semicircle of the storm.<\/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\/08\/140819_16z_goes15_ir_ssmis_microwave_Lowell_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140819_16z_goes15_ir_ssmis_microwave_Lowell_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR image and DMSP SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image\" width=\"480\" height=\"380\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR image and DMSP SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GOES-14 satellite was in Super Rapid Scan Operations for GOES-R (SRSOR) mode, providing coverage of Tropical Storm Lowell in the East Pacific Ocean on 19 August 2014; an animation of 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (Animated GIF | MP4 movie file | YouTube) showed a gradual increase in the organization of a convective banding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16483,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,40,43,58,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-metop","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482","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=16482"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16500,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16482\/revisions\/16500"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}