{"id":17174,"date":"2014-11-13T23:59:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-13T23:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=17174"},"modified":"2014-11-17T11:58:24","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T11:58:24","slug":"river-effect-snow-in-south-dakota","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/17174","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;River-effect&#8221; snow in South Dakota"},"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\/11\/141113_goes13_visible_SD_river_effect_snow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/11\/Reg_Vis_Sat_20141113_1815.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images <em><strong>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the presence of numerous cloud streamers originating over the Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe reservoirs along the Missouri River in South Dakota on <a title=\"13 November 2014 daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20141113.html\"><strong>13 November 2014<\/strong><\/a>. At times these cloud bands were producing snow that was reducing surface visibility to 4 miles at Pierre (<a title=\"time series of KPIR surface reports\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/11\/141113_KPIR_SFCMG.GIF\"><strong>KPIR<\/strong><\/a>) and 5 miles at Chamberlain (<a title=\"time series of K9V9 surface reports\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/11\/141113_K9V9_SFCMG.GIF\"><strong>K9V9<\/strong><\/a>).<\/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\/11\/141113_1948z_modis_visible_rgb_sst_SD_river_effect_snow_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/11\/141113_1948z_modis_visible_rgb_sst_SD_river_effect_snow_anim.gif\" alt=\"Aqua MODIS 0.65 \u00b5m visible channel image, False-color RGB image, and Sea Surface Temperature product at 19:48 UTC\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aqua MODIS 0.65 \u00b5m visible channel image, False-color RGB image, and Sea Surface Temperature product at 19:48 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Comparisons of visible channel and false-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images from Aqua MODIS <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> and Suomi NPP VIIRS <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em> demonstrated the value of RGB products to more easily identify such supercooled water droplet cloud features <em>(which appear as varying shades of white)<\/em> in areas that have underlying snow cover <em>(which appears as varying shades of red). <\/em>In addition, the MODIS Sea Surface Temperature (SST) product <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed that SST values were in the 40-50\u00ba F range <em>(cyan color enhancement)<\/em> in those Missouri River reservoirs, making them significantly warmer than the cold arctic air mass that had overspread the region.<\/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\/11\/141113_1951z_suomi_npp_viirs_visible_rgb_SD_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2014\/11\/141113_1951z_suomi_npp_viirs_visible_rgb_SD_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel image and False-color RGB image at 19:51 UTC\" width=\"480\" height=\"290\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.64 \u00b5m visible channel image and False-color RGB image at 19:51 UTC<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GOES-13 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (above; click image to play animation) revealed the presence of numerous cloud streamers originating over the Lake Oahe and Lake Sharpe reservoirs along the Missouri River in South Dakota on 13 November 2014. At times these cloud bands were producing snow that was reducing surface visibility to 4 miles [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,12,45,49,48,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-13","category-modis","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs","category-winter-weather"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174","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=17174"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17193,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17174\/revisions\/17193"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}