{"id":19336,"date":"2015-08-19T12:59:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-19T12:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=19336"},"modified":"2015-08-20T20:59:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:59:10","slug":"super-typhoon-atsani-in-the-west-pacific-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/19336","title":{"rendered":"Super Typhoon Atsani in the West Pacific Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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\/150819_himawari8_ir_STY_Atsani_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/960x1280_HIMAWARI_B13_ATSANI_IR_2015231_153000.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 infrared (10.4 \u00b5m) imagery [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 infrared (10.4 \u00b5m) imagery [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Super Typhoon Atsani reached Category 5 intensity early in the day on 19 August 2015; the storm displayed a nearly annular eyewall signature during much of the day on Himawari-8 infrared (10.4 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(above; click image to play MP4 movie file)<\/strong><\/em>. A large (64 Mbyte) animated GIF is available <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150819_himawari8_ir_STY_Atsani_anim.gif\">here<\/a><\/strong>. Evidence of low-altitude mesovortices within the eye can be seen in the 2-km resolution infrared images.<\/p>\n<p>A comparison of DMSP SSMIS microwave (85 GHz) and MSAT-2 infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) images around 20 UTC is shown below (courtesy of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\"><strong>CIMSS Tropical Cyclones<\/strong><\/a> site).<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150819_20utc_ssmis_microwave_mtsat_ir_STY_Atsani_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150819_20utc_ssmis_microwave_mtsat_ir_STY_Atsani_anim.gif\" alt=\"DMSP SSMIS microwave (85 GHz) image and MTSAT-2 infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"369\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">DMSP SSMIS microwave (85 GHz) image and MTSAT-2 infrared (10.8 \u00b5m) image [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>On the topic of eye mesovortices, a more detailed view of these features could be seen on daylight 0.64 \u00b5m visible images <em><strong>(below; click image to play MP4 animation)<\/strong><\/em>. A large (28 Mbyte) animated GIF is available <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150819_himawari8_visible_STY_Atsani_eye_mesovortices_anim.gif\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/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\/08\/150819_himawari8_visible_STY_Atsani_eye_mesovortices_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/08\/150819_HIMAWARI8_VISIBLE_STY_ATSANI_017.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 visible (0.64 um) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 visible (0.64 um) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Super Typhoon Atsani reached Category 5 intensity early in the day on 19 August 2015; the storm displayed a nearly annular eyewall signature during much of the day on Himawari-8 infrared (10.4 \u00b5m) images (above; click image to play MP4 movie file). A large (64 Mbyte) animated GIF is available here. Evidence of low-altitude mesovortices [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":19340,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56,62,20,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dmsp","category-himawari-8","category-mtsat","category-tropical-cyclones"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336","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=19336"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19351,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19336\/revisions\/19351"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}