{"id":20011,"date":"2015-11-03T23:59:18","date_gmt":"2015-11-03T23:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=20011"},"modified":"2015-11-04T06:54:39","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T06:54:39","slug":"advection-of-fogstratus-from-lake-superior","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/20011","title":{"rendered":"Advection of fog\/stratus across western Lake Superior"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/GOES13_vis_ascat_rtma_winds_metars_fronts_screenCapture-20151103_160000.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/GOES13_vis_ascat_rtma_winds_metars_fronts_screenCapture-20151103_160000.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) image, Metop ASCAT and RTMA surface winds, METAR surface reports, and surface frontal analysis [click to enlarge]\" width=\"479\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) image, Metop ASCAT and RTMA surface winds, METAR surface reports, and surface frontal analysis [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) image <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> showed a bank of fog and low stratus (FLS) covering much of the western portion of Lake Superior at 1600 UTC on 03 November 2015. Overlays of Metop ASCAT and Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) surface winds showed the long fetch of northeasterly winds that were moving this FLS feature toward the southwest; this southwestward (and eventual inland) advection could be followed on GOES-13 Visible images <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a class=\"thumbnail\" href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103_goes13_visible_Lake_Superior_fog_stratus_advection_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/screenCapture-20151103_204518.png\" alt=\"GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images with METAR surface reports [click to play animation]\" width=\"479\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) images with METAR surface reports [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>A more detailed view of the FLS deck was provided by a 375-meter resolution Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image at 1848 UTC, with overlays of METAR surface reports, RTMA surface winds, and surface frontal analysis <em><strong>(below)<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><div style=\"width: 489px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103_1848utc_viirs_visible_metars_rtma_winds_fronts_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103_1848utc_viirs_visible_metars_rtma_winds_fronts_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image with METAR surface reports, RTMA surface winds, and surface frontal analysis [click to enlarge]\" width=\"479\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) image with METAR surface reports, RTMA surface winds, and surface frontal analysis [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>The GOES-R Low Cloud Thickness product shown below (derived using GOES-13 data) indicated that the maximum depth of the FLS feature was around 2200 feet <em>(yellow color enhancement).<\/em><\/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\/11\/151103_goes13_Low_Cloud_Thickness_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2015\/11\/151103_goes13_Low_Cloud_Thickness_anim.gif\" alt=\"GOES-13 Low Cloud Thickness product [click to enlarge]\" width=\"479\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">GOES-13 Low Cloud Thickness product [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A GOES-13 Visible (0.63 \u00b5m) image (above) showed a bank of fog and low stratus (FLS) covering much of the western portion of Lake Superior at 1600 UTC on 03 November 2015. Overlays of Metop ASCAT and Real-Time Mesoscale Analysis (RTMA) surface winds showed the long fetch of northeasterly winds that were moving this FLS [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20013,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,11,34,58,49,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fog-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-r","category-metop","category-suomi_npp","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011","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=20011"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20016,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20011\/revisions\/20016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}