{"id":21693,"date":"2016-08-09T13:03:26","date_gmt":"2016-08-09T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/?p=21693"},"modified":"2016-08-15T15:32:03","modified_gmt":"2016-08-15T15:32:03","slug":"goes-14-is-operating-in-srso-r-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/archives\/21693","title":{"rendered":"GOES-14 is operating in SRSO-R Mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GOES-14<\/a>

GOES-14 0.62 \u00b5m Visible images from 1230 to 1245 UTC on 9 August 2016<\/strong> [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-14 is in SRSO-R mode<\/a> from today through 25 August, providing 1-minute imagery over western portions of the United States. The geographic footprint for 9 August 2016 is shown above (realtime images)<\/a>, and the 15-minute animation contains 13 images, versus the normal 2 that GOES-East or GOES-West would provide during routine scanning. This one-minute imagery is being provided to help prepare for GOES-R<\/a>; GOES-R is scheduled to launch on 4 November, and when operational it will routinely provide 1-minute imagery in mesoscale sectors.<\/p>\n

Shown below is a comparison of GOES-15 (GOES-West),<\/em> GOES-14 and GOES-13 (GOES-East)<\/em> Visible images covering the longer 1-hour period of 1230-1330 UTC, focusing on a area of thunderstorms over North Texas. During this time, there are 53 images from GOES-14, compared to 7 images from GOES-15 and 5 images from GOES-13 — note how the evolution of overshooting tops is very easy to follow using the 1-minute GOES-14 imagery.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 (left), GOES-14 (center and GOES-13 (right) Visible images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>GOES-14 also monitored the dissipation of fog\/low stratus clouds over Nebraska, as seen in the animation below. Additional details can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-14<\/a>

GOES-14 Visible (0.62 \u00b5m) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>Later in the day, the GOES-14 Visible (0.62 \u00b5m) animation below (also available as a large 62 Mbyte animated GIF<\/a>) showed the development of severe thunderstorms in Montana and Wyoming, which produced several reports of damaging winds and large hail (up to 4.0 inches<\/a> in diameter). This example is particularly noteworthy due to the fact that the storm was well-sampled by satellite imagery in a region of poor radar coverage<\/a> (h\/t to @DanLindsey77<\/a>). For additional details on this case, see the VISIT Meteorological Interpretation Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-14<\/a>

GOES-14 Visible (0.62 \u00b5m) images, with surface reports and SPC storm reports of hail (yellow) and wind (cyan) [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>A 3-panel comparison of Visible images from GOES-15 and GOES-13 (available at the routine 15-30 minute interval) and GOES-14 (available at 1-minute intervals) is shown below.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-13<\/a>

GOES-13 (left), GOES-14 (center) and GOES-13 (right) 0.62 um Visible images [click to play MP4 animation]<\/p><\/div>During the early afternoon hours, the GOES-15 (GOES-West) satellite performed a “North\/South Station Keeping maneuver”, during which there was no imaging between 1700-1900 UTC. To help cover for this outage, the GOES-13 (GOES-East) satellite was paced into Full Disk scan mode, which provided only 1 image every 30 minutes. During this time period, the 1-minute imagery from GOES-14 (shown below) was essential to monitor such features as a wildfire burning southeast of Ely, Nevada (station identifier KELY). Two apparent flare-ups of the fire were seen in the areal coverage of the hottest pixels (red) on GOES-14 Shortwave Infrared (3.9 \u00b5m) images at 1805 UTC and 1807 UTC, which were not captured by the 30-minute GOES-13 imagery. In fact, the 1745 UTC GOES-13 Shortwave Infrared image suggested that there was a brief reduction in the intensity of the fire (indicated by a lack of red pixels), which was not the case according to the 1-minute GOES-14 imagery.<\/p>\n

\"GOES-15<\/a>

GOES-15 (left panels), GOES-14 (center panels) and GOES-13 (right panels) 0.62 m Visible (top) and 3.9 \u00b5m Shortwave Infrared (bottom) images [click to play animation]<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GOES-14 is in SRSO-R mode from today through 25 August, providing 1-minute imagery over western portions of the United States. The geographic footprint for 9 August 2016 is shown above (realtime images), and the 15-minute animation contains 13 images, versus the normal 2 that GOES-East or GOES-West would provide during routine scanning. This one-minute imagery […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":21696,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,11,40,43,34,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fire-detection","category-goes-13","category-goes-14","category-goes-15","category-goes-r","category-severe-convection"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693","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=21693"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21754,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21693\/revisions\/21754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cimss.ssec.wisc.edu\/satellite-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}