{"id":19064,"date":"2015-08-05T20:06:18","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T20:06:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19064"},"modified":"2021-08-05T16:56:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-05T16:56:00","slug":"typhoon-soudelor-in-the-pacific","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19064","title":{"rendered":"Typhoon Soudelor in the Pacific"},"content":{"rendered":"

The animation above (link<\/a>) shows two-plus days of 10.35 \u00b5m Infrared imagery (from Himawari-8) of Typhoon Soudelor over the western Pacific Ocean. The animation of 2.5-minute interval images is from the Himawari-8 Target Sector that shifts as the Typhoon moves. The animation shows significant strengthening to Category 5 intensity and subsequent weakening as the storm undergoes an eyewall replacement cycle (ERC). That ERC is apparent in the MIMIC morphed microwave imagery<\/a>, below. In addition, an SST Analysis<\/a> from the CIMSS Tropical Cyclones site<\/a> shows the storm traversing an area of relatively cooler Sea Surface Temperatures. Strengthening is expected in the next days as the storm approaches Taiwan.<\/p>\n

\"Morphed<\/a>

Morphed Microwave Imagery centered on Soudelor, 1200 UTC 3 August – 1200 UTC 5 August 2015<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A visible animation (0.52 \u00b5m, 2.5-minute time steps) from Himawari-8, below, (available here as an mp4<\/a>, or here on YouTube<\/a>) during the day on 4 August, shows a relatively clear eye with embedded vortices. In addition, tranverse banding at the cirrus level is obvious.<\/p>\n

\"Himawari-8<\/a>

Himawari-8 0.52 \u00b5m imagery, 3-4 August 2015<\/strong> [click to play 100+ Megabyte animation]<\/p><\/div>Suomi NPP overflew Soudelor during the night on 4 August. The toggle between the VIIRS Day\/Night Band visible (0.70 \u00b5m) image and the Infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) image is shown below (courtesy William Straka, SSEC). The three-quarter full moon supplied ample illumination to yield a very crisp visible image at night.<\/p>\n

\"Suomi<\/a>

Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band visible image (0.70 \u00b5m) and infrared (11.45 \u00b5m) image at 1608 UTC 4 August 2015<\/strong> [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The animation above (link) shows two-plus days of 10.35 \u00b5m Infrared imagery (from Himawari-8) of Typhoon Soudelor over the western Pacific Ocean. The animation of 2.5-minute interval images is from the Himawari-8 Target Sector that shifts as the Typhoon moves. The animation shows significant strengthening to Category 5 intensity and subsequent weakening as the storm […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":19066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,47,49,2,48,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-other-satellites","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs","category-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064","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=19064"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41764,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19064\/revisions\/41764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}