{"id":18156,"date":"2015-04-19T18:35:36","date_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:35:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18156"},"modified":"2015-04-19T18:38:17","modified_gmt":"2015-04-19T18:38:17","slug":"himawari-8-visible-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18156","title":{"rendered":"Himawari-8 visible images"},"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\/2015\/04\/150418-19_himawari8_ahi_visible_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/ahi_vis_25.jpg\" alt=\"Himiwari-8 AHI 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himiwari-8 AHI 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images (click to play animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>0.5-km resolution Himawari-8 <a title=\"Advanced Himawari Imager (AHI)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/mscweb\/en\/himawari89\/space_segment\/spsg_ahi.html\"><strong>AHI<\/strong><\/a> 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images 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>(above; click image to play animation)<\/strong><\/em> revealed a number of interesting features from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Bering Sea during the 18 April &#8211; 19 April 2015 period, which included <strong>(1)<\/strong> a series of lee waves immediately west of the Kuril Islands (the chain of islands south of the Kamchatka Peninsula),<strong> (2)<\/strong> the cyclonic circulation that formed over the western Bering Sea off the Russian coast, along the far northern edge of a remnant frontal boundary, and<strong> (3)<\/strong> cloud streets in the central Bering Sea, streaming southward and southwestward from the sea ice across the open waters.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel images with an overlay of the19 April \/ 00 UTC surface analysis<em><strong> (below)<\/strong><\/em> showed the location of the remnant frontal boundary, which was an axis of convergence between strong northerly winds over the central Bering Sea <em>(causing the cloud streets and heavy freezing spray which would be a concern for shipping activities in that area)<\/em> and a ridge of high pressure southeast of the Kamchatka Peninsula.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/150419_0037z_suomi_npp_viirs_DNB_IR_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/04\/150419_0037z_suomi_npp_viirs_DNB_IR_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel  images.\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.7 \u00b5m Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00b5m IR channel images.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>0.5-km resolution Himawari-8 AHI 0.63 \u00b5m visible channel images from the SSEC RealEarth web map server (above; click image to play animation) revealed a number of interesting features from the Sea of Okhotsk to the Bering Sea during the 18 April &#8211; 19 April 2015 period, which included (1) a series of lee waves immediately [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":18158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,53,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-real-earth","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156","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=18156"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18157,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18156\/revisions\/18157"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}