{"id":18853,"date":"2015-07-10T16:02:41","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=18853"},"modified":"2015-07-10T16:56:27","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T16:56:27","slug":"chan-hom-approaches-the-coast-of-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/18853","title":{"rendered":"Chan-Hom approaches the coast of China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/kkjKdDPM62I?version=3&amp;loop=1&amp;playlist=kkjKdDPM62I\" width=\"90%\" height=\"360\"><\/iframe><\/center>The video above shows 5 hours of Himawari-8 10.35 \u00b5m Infrared imagery from Typhoon Chan-Hom as it moves through the Yellow Sea towards the coast of China (original animated gif <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/H8_CHANHOM_10JULY_anim_10.35.gif\">here<\/a>; mp4 <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/H8_CHANHOM_10JULY_anim_10.35.mp4\">here<\/a>). The location of Shanghai is indicated in the first frame, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wunderground.com\/blog\/JeffMasters\/comment.html?entrynum=3038\">this blog post<\/a> talks about the history of typhoon landfalls near Shanghai. The appearance of the storm in the animation above is relatively constant.<\/p>\n<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\/H83WV_CHANHOM_8-10JULYanim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/H83WV_CHANHOM_9July_1500.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 6.2 \u00b5m (top), 6.9 \u00b5m (middle) and 7.3 \u00b5m (bottom) water vapor infrared imagery, 0000 UTC 8 July 2015 &#8211; 1500 UTC 10 July 2015<\/strong> (click to animate)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The three water vapor channels from Himawari-8, above, over the course of the past 3 days show a steady northwestward motion and a decrease in the cold cloud tops surrounding the storm, consistent with the weakening that has been observed after peak intensity at ~1500 UTC on July 9. Typhoon Nangka remains southeast of Chan-Hom; Typhoon Linfa has dissipated after having made landfall over south China. Chan-Hom&#8217;s path (below) is over progressively colder water and significant intensification is not expected before landfall.<\/p>\n<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\/ChanHomSST_1200UTC_10July.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/ChanHomSST_1200UTC_10July.gif\" alt=\"Sea-Surface Temperatures over the Yellow Sea, along with Chan-Hom's past and projected path (Click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Sea-Surface Temperatures over the Yellow Sea, along with Chan-Hom&#8217;s past and projected path<\/strong> (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A DMSP SSMIS 85 GHz microwave image at 0946 UTC on 10 July, below, showed that Category 3 Typhoon Chan-Hom was undergoing an eyewall replacement cycle as the small inner eyewall was being replaced by a much larger outer eyewall. Also on the image are 1244 UTC Metop ASCAT surface scatterometer winds, which displayed a large area with winds in the 50-59.9 knot range along the western periphery of the tropical cyclone.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150710_0946utc_ssmis_mw_1244utc_ascat_Chan_Hom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/07\/150710_0946utc_ssmis_mw_1244utc_ascat_Chan_Hom.jpg\" alt=\"DMSP SSMIS microwave image at 0946 UTC, and Metop ASCAT winds at 1244 UTC (click to enlarge)\" width=\"479\" height=\"381\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP SSMIS microwave image at 0946 UTC, and Metop ASCAT winds at 1244 UTC (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video above shows 5 hours of Himawari-8 10.35 \u00b5m Infrared imagery from Typhoon Chan-Hom as it moves through the Yellow Sea towards the coast of China (original animated gif here; mp4 here). The location of Shanghai is indicated in the first frame, and this blog post talks about the history of typhoon landfalls near [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":18859,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,62,58,25,2,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-himawari-8","category-metop","category-satellite-winds","category-tropical-cyclones","category-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853","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=18853"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18865,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18853\/revisions\/18865"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}