{"id":172,"date":"2006-10-11T23:32:46","date_gmt":"2006-10-11T23:32:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/2006\/10\/11\/goes-sounder-total-column-ozone\/"},"modified":"2006-10-15T18:01:05","modified_gmt":"2006-10-15T18:01:05","slug":"goes-sounder-total-column-ozone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/172","title":{"rendered":"GOES Sounder Total Column Ozone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"AWIPS GOES sounder total column ozone\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/10\/061011_15_sounder_ozone.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"480\" height=\"456\" align=\"middle\" title=\"AWIPS GOES sounder total column ozone\" id=\"image170\" alt=\"AWIPS GOES sounder total column ozone\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/10\/061011_15_sounder_ozone.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nA deep cold core upper-level low rapidly intensified over the northcentral US and southcentral Canada on <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"11 October daily weather map\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hpc.ncep.noaa.gov\/dailywxmap\/index_20061011.html\"><strong>11 October<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; cold air in the wake of a strong southward-moving cold frontal boundary allowed many sites across the Upper Midwest and the western Great Lakes region to see their first snow of the season (13-22 inches fell in northern Wisconsin and the UP of Michigan, snow pellets were seen here in Madison area, and Detroit, Michigan experienced their earliest measurable snowfall on record); this system later gave Buffalo, New York it&#8217;s snowiest October day ever (14.0 inches on 13 October). The AWIPS image of <strong>GOES sounder total column ozone <em>(above)<\/em><\/strong> shows a  lobe of elevated ozone (350 Dobson Units or higher, green to red enhancement) which was moving southward across the Dakotas, Minnesota, and Iowa <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Sounder ozone QuickTime animation\" href=\"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/goes\/misc\/blog\/061011_sounder_ozone.mov\"><em><strong>(QuickTime animation)<\/strong><\/em><\/a>. This upper-tropospheric ozone feature  corresponded with the   lowering tropopause heights (denoted by the potential vorticity contours greater than ~2.0 PVU within the 310-320 K isentropic layer) associated with the core of the deepening <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Ozone + 500 hPa heights\/vorticity\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2006\/10\/061011_16_sounder_ozone_500.jpg\"><strong>500 hPa vortex<\/strong><\/a>. Ozone and potential vorticity are  both tracers of stratospheric air &#8212; high values in the upper troposphere are seen when tropopause heights drop (due to tropopause folding around jet streaks or upper-level frontogenesis, or deepening of upper-level cyclones).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A deep cold core upper-level low rapidly intensified over the northcentral US and southcentral Canada on 11 October &#8212; cold air in the wake of a strong southward-moving cold frontal boundary allowed many sites across the Upper Midwest and the western Great Lakes region to see their first snow of the season (13-22 inches fell [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interpretation","category-goes-sounder"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}