{"id":16601,"date":"2014-08-28T23:59:04","date_gmt":"2014-08-28T23:59:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=16601"},"modified":"2014-09-02T14:22:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-02T14:22:51","slug":"hurricane-cristobal-and-the-saharan-air-layer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/16601","title":{"rendered":"Hurricane Cristobal and the Saharan Air Layer"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Meteosat-10<\/a>

Meteosat-10 Saharan Air Layer product (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

The CIMSS Saharan Air Layer<\/strong><\/a> (SAL) product (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed a large pocket of SAL (yellow to red color enhancement)<\/em> drifting westward over the far western Atlantic Ocean and toward the Gulf of Mexico on 28 August 2014.<\/p>\n

On GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (below; click image to play animation),<\/strong><\/em> the hazy signature of the SAL dust could be seen surging westward, not far to the south of Category 1 intensity Hurricane Cristobal<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

The SAL also exhibited a warm\/dry signature (yellow to orange color enhancement)<\/em> on the corresponding GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong>.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 6.5 \u00b5m water vapor channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

At 17:16 UTC, a Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) image from the SSEC RealEarth<\/strong><\/a> web map server (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed that Hurricane Cristobal had developed an eye formation.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS true-color image<\/p><\/div>\n

A comparison of AWIPS-2 images of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel and 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel data (below)<\/strong><\/em> revealed that the coldest cloud-top IR brightness temperatures (-77\u00ba C, lighter gray color enhancement)<\/em> were located within convection just southwest and southeast of the eye.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible image and 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel image<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The CIMSS Saharan Air Layer (SAL) product (above; click image to play animation) showed a large pocket of SAL (yellow to red color enhancement) drifting westward over the far western Atlantic Ocean and toward the Gulf of Mexico on 28 August 2014. On GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (below; click image to play animation), […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":16618,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23,53,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-goes-13","category-meteosat","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601","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=16601"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16607,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16601\/revisions\/16607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}