{"id":16543,"date":"2014-08-21T23:01:37","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T23:01:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16543"},"modified":"2014-08-23T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2014-08-23T00:00:18","slug":"mesovortices-within-the-eye-of-hurricane-lowell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16543","title":{"rendered":"Mesovortices within the eye of Hurricane Lowell"},"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\/140821_goes15_visible_hurricane_lowell_mesovortices_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140821_G15_VIS_LOWELL_MESOVORTICES_23.GIF\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation; also available as an <a title=\"MP4 movie file\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140821_goes15_visible_hurricane_lowell_mesovortices_anim.mp4\">MP4 movie file<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the presence of mesovortices within the eye of Category 1 <a title=\"Hurricane Lowell (NHC advisory archive)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nhc.noaa.gov\/archive\/2014\/LOWELL.shtml?\"><strong>Hurricane Lowell<\/strong><\/a> in the East Pacific Ocean on 21 August 2014.<\/p>\n<p>The mesovortices were also evident at 21:07 UTC in a Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image from the <a title=\"SSEC RealEarth web map server\" href=\"http:\/\/wms.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/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\/140821_2107z_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Hurricane_Lowell_mesovortices.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140821_2107z_suomi_npp_viirs_truecolor_Hurricane_Lowell_mesovortices.jpg\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image\" width=\"480\" height=\"320\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In addition to having a rather large eye, Hurricane Lowell also had a large radius of strong winds, as seen on a comparison of a GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible image and Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds from the <a title=\"CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site\" href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/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\/140821_18z_goes15_visible_ascat_hurricane_lowell_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/08\/140821_18z_goes15_visible_ascat_hurricane_lowell_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel image with Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel image with Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation; also available as an MP4 movie file) revealed the presence of mesovortices within the eye of Category 1 Hurricane Lowell in the East Pacific Ocean on 21 August 2014. The mesovortices were also evident at 21:07 UTC in a Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16547,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,58,53,25,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-15","category-metop","category-real-earth","category-satellite-winds","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543","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=16543"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16546,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16543\/revisions\/16546"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}