{"id":20951,"date":"2016-03-17T23:59:48","date_gmt":"2016-03-17T23:59:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=20951"},"modified":"2016-03-19T17:21:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-19T17:21:31","slug":"severe-cyclone-emeraude-in-the-indian-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/20951","title":{"rendered":"Severe Cyclone Emeraude in the Indian Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160315-18_Cyclone_Emeraude_adt.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160315-18_Cyclone_Emeraude_adt.gif\" alt=\"Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity plot for Cyclone Emeraude [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity plot for Cyclone Emeraude [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>A plot of the <a href=\"http:\/\/tropic.ssec.wisc.edu\/misc\/adt\/info.html\"><strong>Advanced Dvorak Technique<\/strong><\/a> intensity estimate for Cyclone Emeraude in the Indian Ocean <em><strong>(above)<\/strong><\/em> shows that the storm rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity on 17 March 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Himawari-8 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.data.jma.go.jp\/mscweb\/en\/himawari89\/space_segment\/spsg_ahi.html\"><strong>AHI<\/strong><\/a> Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images <em><strong>(below; <\/strong>also available as a large 31-Mbyte<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160317_himawari8_visible_infrared_Cyclone_Emeraude_anim.gif\">animated GIF<\/a>)<\/strong><\/em> revealed the formation of a well-defined eye during the day.<\/p>\n<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\/2016\/03\/160317_himawari8_visible_infrared_Cyclone_Emeraude_anim.mp4\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/480x1280_H8F_B313_HIM08_VIS_IR_EMERAUDE_17FEB_2016077_120000_0002PANELS.GIF\" alt=\"Himawari-8 Visible (0..64 \u00b5m, top) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m, bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Himawari-8 Visible (0..64 \u00b5m, top) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m, bottom) images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>Nighttime images of Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) data at 1859 UTC <em><strong>(below, <\/strong>courtesy of William Straka, SSEC<strong>)<\/strong><\/em> showed the ragged appearance of the eye at that time, with an isolated convective burst that had developed well west of the eye.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160317_1859utc_suomi_npp_viirs_day_night_band_infrared_Cyclone_Emeraude_anim.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2016\/03\/160317_1859utc_suomi_npp_viirs_day_night_band_infrared_Cyclone_Emeraude_anim.gif\" alt=\"Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]\" width=\"480\" height=\"332\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Suomi NPP VIIRS Day\/Night Band (0.7 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (11.45 \u00b5m) images [click to enlarge]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A plot of the Advanced Dvorak Technique intensity estimate for Cyclone Emeraude in the Indian Ocean (above) shows that the storm rapidly intensified to Category 4 intensity on 17 March 2016. Himawari-8 AHI Visible (0.64 \u00b5m) and Infrared Window (10.4 \u00b5m) images (below; also available as a large 31-Mbyte animated GIF) revealed the formation of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":20953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,49,2,48],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-himawari-8","category-suomi_npp","category-tropical-cyclones","category-viirs"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","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=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20958,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions\/20958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}