{"id":19087,"date":"2015-08-06T18:59:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-06T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19087"},"modified":"2015-08-07T18:25:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-07T18:25:56","slug":"himawari-8-true-color-imagery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19087","title":{"rendered":"Himawari-8 true-color imagery"},"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\/08\/YOuTube_1_6_Aug_Soudelor.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\" https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/1080x1920_AHIM08_B1_SOUDELOR_2015216_023000.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 true-color images (click to play YouTube animation)\" width=\"480\" height=\"270\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 true-color images (click to play YouTube animation)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A sequence of 10-minute interval Himawari-8 true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images covering the period 01 August to 06 August 2015 is shown above<em><strong> (also available as a very large 721 MByte <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/1080x1920_AHIM08_B1_SOUDELOR_animated_2015213_160000_86_2015218_124000_86_X.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>, a 66 Mbyte <\/strong><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/1080x1920_AHIM08_B1_SOUDELOR_animated_2015213_160000_86_2015218_124000_86_X.mp4\">MP4 movie file<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>or an alternate version<\/strong><\/em> <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ccHBd4KhmhM&amp;feature=youtu.be\">here<\/a><\/strong> <strong>on YouTube)<\/strong><\/em>. One of the most prominent features seen is Typhoon Soudelor in the West Pacific Ocean, which reached Category 5 Super Typhoon intensity late in the day on 03 August, as indicated in a plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity estimate from the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/tropic.php\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/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\/08\/150730-150806_Super_Typhoon_Soudelor_ADT.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150730-150806_Super_Typhoon_Soudelor_ADT.gif\" alt=\"Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimation plot for Super Typhoon Soudelor (click to enlarge)\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advanced Dvorak Technique (ADT) intensity estimation plot for Super Typhoon Soudelor (click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other features of interest seen during this 6-day animation include hazy-white plumes of urban pollution and\/or wildfire smoke streaming eastward off the Asian continent, as well as light brown or tan-colored plumes of blowing dust\/sand originating from the interior desert regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Himawari-8 AHI data are provided by the JMA, acquired by NOAA\/NESDIS\/STAR, and processed at SSEC\/CIMSS. The true-color images use information from AHI bands 1, 2, and 3, combined with a customized contrast stretch algorithm. No background image was used.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sequence of 10-minute interval Himawari-8 true-color Red\/Green\/Blue (RGB) images covering the period 01 August to 06 August 2015 is shown above (also available as a very large 721 MByte animated GIF, a 66 Mbyte MP4 movie file, or an alternate version here on YouTube). One of the most prominent features seen is Typhoon Soudelor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,45,2,64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-redgreenblue-rgb-images","category-tropical-cyclones","category-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087","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=19087"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19114,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19087\/revisions\/19114"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}