{"id":18786,"date":"2015-07-06T21:14:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-06T21:14:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18786"},"modified":"2015-07-07T02:19:26","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T02:19:26","slug":"chan-hom-in-the-western-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18786","title":{"rendered":"Chan-Hom in the western Pacific Ocean"},"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\/07\/H8_10.4anim_06JULY2015_125.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/H8_10.8_2002_6July2015.gif\" alt=\"Himawari-8 10.35 \u00b5m infrared imagery, 1447-2002 UTC on 6 July 2015 (Click to animate)\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Himawari-8 10.35 \u00b5m infrared imagery, 1447-2002 UTC on 6 July 2015<\/strong> (click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Typhoon Chan-Hom in the western Pacific Ocean is forecast to strengthen and move towards Taiwan later this week. A Himawari-8 target sector is viewing the storm today, and a 5-hour animation with a 2.5-minute time step (10.35 \u00b5m infrared imagery) is shown above. Very cold overshooting tops (the yellow enhancement show tops colder than -90\u00ba C) periodically develop. The toggle below of Sea Surface Temperature and Wind Shear (taken from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\">CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/a> site) shows conditions &#8212; very warm sea-surface temperatures and low values of deep-layer wind shear &#8212; favorable for strengthening.<\/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\/07\/Chan_Hom_SST_Shear06july2015toggle.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/Chan_Hom_SST_Shear06july2015toggle.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS 0.70 \u00b5m visible Day\/Night Band and 11.45 \u00b5m - 3.74 \u00b5m Brightness Temperature Difference images, and Ceilings and Visibilities, ~0800 UTC (click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>SSTs and Wind Shear superimposed on the forecast track of Typhoon Chan-Hom<\/strong> (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The three water vapor images shown below, also from Himawari-8, show that Chan-Hom is the 2nd of three tropical systems in a row. Linfa is west of the Philippines and approaching the coast of China; Nangka is east of Chan-Hom. Note that the 6.2 \u00b5m imagery is more sensitive to water vapor higher in the troposphere: Cirrus shields are apparent. The 7.3 \u00b5m imagery is not so sensitive to upper-level moisture and can therefore detect cumulus fields underneath cirrus.<\/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\/07\/HIMAWARI_3WV_2040_06JULY2016.GIF\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/HIMAWARI_3WV_2040_06JULY2016.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 6.2 \u00b5m, 6.9 \u00b5m and 7.3 \u00b5m infrared water vapor images, 2040 UTC on 6 July 2015 (Click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"318\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Himawari-8 6.2 \u00b5m, 6.9 \u00b5m and 7.3 \u00b5m infrared water vapor images, 2040 UTC on 6 July 2015<\/strong> (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Typhoon Chan-Hom in the western Pacific Ocean is forecast to strengthen and move towards Taiwan later this week. A Himawari-8 target sector is viewing the storm today, and a 5-hour animation with a 2.5-minute time step (10.35 \u00b5m infrared imagery) is shown above. Very cold overshooting tops (the yellow enhancement show tops colder than -90\u00ba [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18786"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18803,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18786\/revisions\/18803"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}