{"id":17565,"date":"2015-01-20T23:59:15","date_gmt":"2015-01-20T23:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=17565"},"modified":"2015-01-21T05:08:53","modified_gmt":"2015-01-21T05:08:53","slug":"tropical-storm-niko-in-the-south-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/17565","title":{"rendered":"Tropical Storm Niko (07P) in the South Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product, with Tropical Surface Analyses (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water<\/strong><\/a> product (above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed a broad moist plume in the equatorial South Pacific Ocean, within which Tropical Storm Niko began to develop during the 19 January – 20 January 2015 period. By the end of the animation, Gale Force winds were being analyzed within the eastern semicircle of the developing cyclone. Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds at 08:01 UTC (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed winds as strong as 42 knots (though the direction of the stronger yellow wind barbs was suspect, likely due to rain contamination).<\/p>\n

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MIMIC TPW product, with Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds<\/p><\/div>\n

After daybreak on 20 January, McIDAS images of GOES-15 (GOES-West)<\/em> 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel data (below; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> showed the development of spiral banding wrapping into the central low-level circulation center as the system reached tropical storm intensity by 18 UTC.\u00a0 In addition, a few strong convective pulses with distinct overshooting tops could be seen near the core of Niko.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n

An animation of GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site (below)<\/strong><\/em> included an overlay of contours of the deep layer (200 – 850 hPa)<\/em> wind shear at 18 UTC — Tropical Storm Niko developed in a region characterized by low wind shear, which enabled the storm to rapidly intensify.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 10.7 \u00b5m IR channel images, with contours of deep layer wind shear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

AWIPS images of the MIMIC Total Precipitable Water product (above; click image to play animation) showed a broad moist plume in the equatorial South Pacific Ocean, within which Tropical Storm Niko began to develop during the 19 January – 20 January 2015 period. By the end of the animation, Gale Force winds were being analyzed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":17569,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,58,25,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","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\/17565","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=17565"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17574,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17565\/revisions\/17574"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}